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John "Jack" Henry Lockett OAM (22 January 1891 – 25 May 2002), also known as Jack Lockett, was a farmer and an Australian veteran of the First World War. At the time of his death, aged 111 years, 123 days, he was the oldest man and freemason in Australia. He died just three days after fellow supercentenarian Christina Cock, Australia's oldest woman and oldest person ever, who was 114 at the time of her death. ==Biography== Lockett was born in the small Victorian town of Waanyarra, near Bendigo. He left school at the age of 9 to work on a local farm. Later, he worked for his uncles in The Mallee. On 24 March 1916, he travelled to Mildura to enlist in the Australian Imperial Force. He served in France with the 38th Battalion, earning promotion to sergeant and was discharged on 20 September 1919. After the war, Lockett returned to The Mallee and selected a block of land in Linga, Victoria, deciding to make his living as a farmer. In 1923, he married Maybell Ingwerson and they had four children together. In 1963, the couple retired to Bendigo, leaving the farmland (which now covered more than ), in the care of their children and grandchildren.〔 In 1998, Lockett and his known fellow surviving veterans were awarded ''Chevalier'' (Knight) of the ''Légion d'honneur'' by the French government for their service in the war. In 2000, at the age of 109, he participated in the 2000 Olympic Torch Relay. On 11 June 2001, he was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to the community of Bendigo, particularly as a representative of Australia war veterans. Lockett died of kidney failure at age 111.〔 At the time of his death, he was survived by four children; Jack, Kevin, Joyce and Ron; fifteen grandchildren; and twenty-four great-grandchildren.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jack Lockett」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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