Last battle of World War II Vet dies in Australia

 Last known World War II combat veteran was defiant time tolls, a centenary that swam in the sea, tour through the dance floors and publishes his first book at 108. He also refused to submit to its place in history, becoming a pacifist would not March in parades commemorating war like that which made him famous.

Claude Stanley Choules, a man of contradictions, humble spirit and wry humor, died in a Western Australia nursing home, on Thursday at the age of 110. And if his accomplishments were many - including a dedicated a military 41 year career that spans the two world wars - the man known as "Chuckles" of his comrades in the Australian Navy was happier to be known as a father.

"We are all loved him", his 84-year-old daughter, Daphne Edinger told Associated Press. "It will be sad to think of him is do not here long, but it is how things are going.".

Choules was born on March 3, 1901, in the British town of Pershore, Worcestershire, a family of seven children. As a child, she was told her mother had died - a lie meant to cover a painful truth: she left when he was 5 to pursue an acting career. Abandonment affected him deeply, said his daughter Anne Pow, and he grew up determined to create a happy home for her own children.

In his autobiography, "The Last of the Last" published just two years ago, he forgot the day of the first automobile led through the city, an event that brought all the villagers outside to watch. It brought when a pack of cigarettes cost a penny. He brought learning to surf to the coast of South Africa, and how strange it was that black people were forced to use a separate range of whites.

He has drawn on the water at an early age, fishing and swimming in the local brook. Later in life, he would regularly swim in the warm waters off the coasts of Western Australia State, only stopping when he turned 100.

World war raging when Choules started his training with the Royal Navy, just a month after he was 14 years old. In 1917, he joined the battleship HMS vengeance, wherever he looked at the surrender of the German high seas fleet, fleet combat of the German Navy during the war of 1918.

"No there was no sign of fight left in the Germans that they are out of the haze at around 10 hours," Choules wrote in his autobiography. The German flag, he recalled, was transported down to the sunset.

He wrote "until the end of this day the most memorable in the annals of the naval war". "A fleet of ships surrendered without drawing a fire kick".

Choules and another British, Florence Green, became last survivor service members known war on the after the death of Frank Buckles us in February, according to the order of the first world war, a group based in the United States which tracks the veterans. Choules was the last surviving veteran of the war. Green, who became the 110 in February, served as a waitress in a women's Royal Air Force.

Choules met his wife, Ethel Wildgoose, in 1926, the first day of a six weeks of England in Australia boat trip, where he was dispatched to serve as a naval instructor at the Flinders Naval Depot in the State of Victoria. Ten months later, they married. They have three children - Daphne, Anne, and Adrian, now in the 1970s and 1980s.