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ZAGREB, 5 March 2021 – Croatia’s oldest person, Josip Kršul, has died aged 109.
Kršul passed away in the early hours of Friday in Selce in Croatia’s Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, daily 24sata reported.
Kršul celebrated his 109th birthday back on 10 December in the same house he was born in 1911 in Selce.
After finishing school in Selce and Crikvenica, he studied to be an electrician. He was unable to find a job in his hometown so he went to Šibenik where he became a telegraphist.
At the start of World War II, Josip moved to Texas in America where he worked odd jobs. He ended up joining the United States Army and in 1945 he participated in the Battle of Iwo Jima.
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