Sydney Lucas
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| Sydney Lucas | |
|---|---|
| September 21, 1900 – | |
| Place of birth | Image:Flag of England.svg Leicester, England |
| Allegiance | Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg British Image:Flag of Australia.svg Australian |
| Service/branch | British Army Australian Army |
| Years of service | August 1918 – ? |
| Unit | 45th Sherwood Foresters 2/1st Machine Gun Battalion |
| Battles/wars | World War I |
Sydney "Syd" Lucas (born September 21, 1900) is, at age 107, one of the last surviving U.K. veterans of the First World War, and one of the two remaining British ones who emigrated to Australia. He was born in Leicester, England, and conscripted into the British Army's 45th Sherwood Foresters while a teenager in August 1918, but the war ended before he was sent to fight.
Lucas went to Australia in 1928, enlisted in Australia's 2/1st Machine Gun Battalion soon after the outbreak of the Second World War, and was posted in Palestine. A bout of appendicitis, however, resulted in him having an operation on his gallbladder on arrival, and so he was not medically fit to be sent onwards to Crete. Lucas was transferred to prisoner-of-war duties, guarding Italian and German prisoners of war being shipped to Australia on the RMS Queen Mary.[1]
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- ^ Shtargot, Sasha (2005-04-21). Veteran of two armies to ride in Chevy. The Age. Retrieved on 2007-05-30.
