The last remaining Briton to serve in both the First and Second World Wars has died aged 106.
Captain Kenneth Cummins, hailed today as an "icon", served in the Royal Navy in the First World War and in the Merchant Navy in the Second World War.
Until his death on December 10th at his home in Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire, Mr Cummins was one of five living First World War veterans in Britain.
The four who survive him are William Stone, 106, of Oxford; Henry Allingham, 110, from Sussex; Philip Mayne, 107, of Richmond, North Yorkshire; and Harry Patch, 108, from Somerset.
In the Second World War Mr Cummins survived the torpedoing of his ship, the Viceroy of India, owned by P&O but used by the military.
Twenty-four years earlier, in 1918 on a voyage in the First World War, Mr Cummins witnessed nurses' bodies floating in the ocean after a Canadian hospital ship was illegally destroyed by the Germans.
Mr Cummins was born on March 6 1900 in Richmond, Surrey, and said his long life was down to a good diet and the love of his wife and family.
AP