Marcel Caux. A Life Unravelled

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Wiley
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2005
Edition: First Edition

Description: 250 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: An air of mystery surrounded Marcel Caux, one of the Australiaslast surviving veterans of World War I, prior to his death inAugust 2004. He was unknown to most Australians until four yearsago, when he suddenly emerged as a veteran of World War I. TheDepartment of Veteran Affairs said he had wished to retain someanonymity until that time and had asked that the le containinghis service records be kept private. Why Author andhistorian Lynette Silver sets out to explain the mysterious life ofMarcel Caux in this fascinating account of a man, who up until2001, even had his family wondering what his past really revealed.In a beautifully written and pacy read, Silver unravels the trueMarcel Caux Veterans Affairs records in fact show that Cauxs realname was Harold Katte, born 1899, who served in France and returnedto Australia in 1919. Records issued in the name Marcel Cauxdescribe the service of Harold Katte. His son, Marcus de Caux onlyknew his father as Harold Katte. Was Caux trying to forget thehorrors of war Did he in fact serve, as he said he did, during histime in the Great War Caux scarcely talked about his war for85 years and up until 2001 he never attended an Anzac Day orRemembrance Day service. "Id rather forget the whole bloodybusiness," he said. The amazing unravelling of the real Marcel Caux-- through official records, photographs and interviews withfamily, friends and acquaintances -- will certainly take you on ajourney that, up until now, has been illusive.

ISBN: 9781740311533