Collection: Biography

Subject: An air of mystery surrounded Marcel Caux - one of the nation's last surviving veterans of WWI - prior to his death in 2004. He was unknown to most Australians until four years ago, when he suddenly emerged as a veteran of WWI. Silver sorts through official records, photos, and interviews...

Deng Adut's family were farmers in South Sudan when a brutal civil war altered his life forever. At six years old, his mother was told she had to give him up to fight. At the age most Australian children are starting school , Deng was conscripted into the Sudan People's Liberation Army. He began ...