Derek Law Bibliography

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CHOULES, Claude. The Last of the Last: The Final Survivor of the First World War. xiii, 147 p., illus. Victoria Park, W.A.: Hesperian, 2009; Edinburgh: Mainstream, 2010. ISBN: 9780859054805 (Australia), 9781845966317 (UK).

Choules was the last serviceman survivor of the First World War. He served in the RAN in WW2. Based at Fremantle as a CPO, he was responsible for much of the maintenance of the torpedoes, depth charges, mines and mine detection equipment of these vessels. It was also his job, too, to "de-louse" or otherwise dispose of the various stray mines and depth charges that washed up on Western Australia's extensive coast.