Last WWII VC recipient dies

MELBOURNE - Australia's last remaining World War II Victoria Cross recipient, Edward Kenna, has died in a Victorian nursing home, aged 90.

On May 15, 1945, the then Private Kenna was involved in an action near Wewak, New Guinea, during which he exposed himself to heavy fire, killing a Japanese machine gun crew and making it possible for his company's attack to succeed.

He was awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry in May 1945.

Mr Kenna died in a Geelong nursing home last night, a niece living in Hamilton, in Victoria's south-west, where he was born, confirmed.

- AAP