High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Syd(ney) Maurice Lucas (21 September 1900 – 4 November 2008) was, at age 108, one of three remaining British Tommies of World War I (along with Harry Patch and Netherwood Hughes), although the war ended before he was sent to fight. He was born in Leicester, England, and conscripted into the British Army`s Sherwood Foresters while a teenager in August 1918. He was also, along with his compatriots Claude Choules and Bill Stone, and France`s Fernand Goux, one of the four remaining veterans in the world to have served in both World Wars. Like Choules, he lived in Australia, in Rosebud, Victoria, the same state as the last Australian veteran John Campbell Ross.