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âNot a fitting endâ: Veteran survived the war but not COVID in aged care
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On Anzac Day you could usually find Allan Lorraine eating lunch with his family at his local RSL. But the WWII veteran, who worked in signals for Australiaâs Sixth Battalion in New Guinea from 1942, wonât be there on Sunday.
Born in then working-class South Melbourne in 1923, he was one of the 655 Victorians in aged care who died from coronavirus last year.
Bob Lorraineâs father Allan died last August with COVID.