When Lorna Henstridge (nee Paterson) was born on June 6, 1914, the nation's capital — Canberra — had been named and proclaimed for less than a year. Australia was on the verge of sending her troops overseas as World War I broke out, and the Titanic had sunk to the bottom of the Atlantic two years earlier. Today, Mrs Henstridge marks her 112th birthday, surrounded by family in her former home in Keith, in south-eastern South Australia.