| (AP)
SYDNEY - Claude Stanley Choules the last known combat veteran of World War I died Thursday at a nursing home in the Western Australia city of Perth his family said. He was 110.
Beloved for his wry sense of humor and humble nature the British-born Choules — nicknamed "Chuckles" by his comrades in the Australian Navy — never liked to fuss over his achievements which included a 41-year military career and the publication of his first book at the age of 108.
"We all loved him" his 84-year-old daughter Daphne Edinger told The Associated Press. "It's going to be sad to think of him not being here any longer but that's the way things go." | 
