BEING driven behind the Bright Scouts flagbearer, Jack Tucker was seated in a gleaming red Ford Mustang in the ANZAC Day parade down Ireland Street last Tuesday.

The 96–year–old is the last World War II veteran in the Bright RSL, received a special mention at the 11am service, and also laid a wreath, along with Ed Rozitis, in memory of the fallen in World War II.

After the service Mr Tucker said he enlisted in the Australian Navy in September 1944 and worked as a coder.

"That was putting outgoing signals into code and decoding incoming signals," he said.

He was posted to the HMAS Ballarat minesweeper, but fractured his arm in an accident, so he was posted to the signal office in Flinders, on the Mornington Peninsula.

"The signals were coming in and going out 24 hours a day," he said.

"I'd be on for 24 hours, off for 24, on for 48, off for 48 – but not continuous.

"24 hours would be broken up into watches of four hours, six hours or eight hours."

He said many of the signals related to personnel postings on different ships.

After the war, Mr Tucker said he went back to his job working for the Victorian railways.

He also said he would never miss the ANZAC Day service.

"They'd have to drag me away in a box," he said.