Historical information

John Henry Lockett OAM (22 January 1891 – 25 May 2002) was the oldest man ever in Australia when he died aged 111 years, 123 days. As one of the last surviving veterans of World War I, he was acclaimed as a national hero during the last decade of his life. Lockett was born in the small Victorian town of Waanyarra, near Bendigo. He left school aged nine to work on a local farm. Later, he worked for his uncles in the Mallee. On 24 March 1916, he travelled to Mildura to enlist in the Australian Imperial Force. He served in France with the 38th Battalion, earning promotion to sergeant and was discharged on 20 September 1919. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Lockett

After the war, Jack returned to The Mallee and selected a 640 acres (260 ha) block of land in Linga, Victoria, deciding to make his living as a farmer. In 1923, he married Maybell Ingwerson and they had four children together. In 1963, the couple retired to Bendigo, leaving the farmland (which now covered more than 130,000 acres (53,000 ha), in the care of their children and grandchildren
. The 2000 Olympic flame was relayed from Olympia in Greece to Sydney by 13400 carriers including 11000 Australians, each carrier had their torch

Physical description

Two pieces
The first piece is handwritten in pencil all upper-case letters and there's no identification of the author, probably Jack Lockett
Headed REFELECTIONS 100yrs. the first lines are
38th BATT FORMED 1-3-1916 EPSOM.R.C.
HORZ OVAL PURPLE OVER RED BRUISES BLOOD
ENLISTED 1-4-16
There are 8 more lines with dates in 1916 referring to training and sailing to Plymouth via Capetown for three months
22-11-16 EMBARKED SOUTHHAMPTON
20-9-19 RETURNED TO AUST - MILTIDES PLYMOUTH
20-9-19 DISCHARGED 1268 DAYS
RULES of WAR (GERMAN SPIES)
LOST HAT BALACLARVEERS
FINED 7 LOST PR SOX
The second piece is black print on white A3 paper with a black line one centmetre from the edge around the entire page. A poem with ten verses of four lines is printed in the middle of the page is headed A TIME AND LAND OF GIANTS (A TRIBUTE TO JACK LOCKETT, 1891 - 2002
printed below the poem - Ian Dyett 27/05/2002