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

An A4 paper with blurry photocopies of two photographs
The top photo has 19 men in Australian Army Uniforms with nine men standing in the back row, five men sitting in the middle row and five men sitting on the ground in the front row. A sign in front of the men - GUM SUCKERS ABROAD. Attached to the paper above the photo there's a small piece of paper with printing on it - Training Camp Larks Hill, Salisbury. England 1914 (Jack Lockett standing 3rd from the right)
the lower photo has five men dressed in suites, three standing with two sitting on chairs in front of them, three men have a ribbon on their left lapel.