Jack Lockett

Jack Lockett

John Henry "Jack" Lockett OAM (22 January 1891 – 25 May 2002) 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 in Australia. He died just three days after fellow supercentenarian, Australia's oldest woman and oldest person ever, Christina Cock, who was 114 at the time of her death.

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