bill grayden

Bill Grayden at a Perth service for the 75th anniversary of the Kokoda campaign. ( ABC News: James Carmody ) Decorated World War II veteran Bill Grayden, who was also Western Australia's longest-serving MP, has died at the age of 105. Mr Grayden, who was born in Perth in 1920, is being remembered as "a knockabout sort of a guy", "a doer, not a talker" and a "great West Australian" who lived an extraordinary life. Leonard Ives and his son Bill Grayden, along with their medals. ( ABC News: Courtney Bembridge ) His father served at Gallipoli in World War I and when World War II broke out Mr Grayd