The annual Anzac Day street parade honouring 100-year-old local ...

The annual Anzac Day street parade honouring 100-year-old local veteran

World War II veteran Jack Bartlett is 100 years old and hasn't missed an Anzac Day march in more than 60 years.

Even if it means participating in his very own parade outside his Avoca Beach home, which has become an annual community tradition.

Firefighters stop traffic as neighbours in their hundreds wait at the top of the steps to Bartlett's home on the NSW Central Coast.

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Getting to the Anzac Day march in the city is a little much these days, so the march comes to him.

Jack's a little slower these days and he still has a wonky knee from a battle at sea 80 years ago.

"When I turned 18 I signed up, and strange it might seem, one of the main reasons I signed up [was because] you got a pair of boots and some clothes and some food," he said.

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"Because we were Depression kids, and away I went."

For him, Anzac Day is about the next generation.

"I like to see the children, because the children who come to see me are our future," he said.

"[I hope] that they can live a long and happy life without having to go to war when they turn 18."

Jack first joined the army because he was told he was too skinny to be in the navy.

When the war was over he served in New Guinea and the Soloman Islands cleaning up the bombs left behind.

Of all the men who served during World War II on HMAS Manoora, records show Bartlett is the last man standing.

And if you ask him, he'll be standing to attention on Anzac Day for plenty more years to come.

"I'll live up here and I'll stop here til I die.. and I don't feel like dying yet," he said.