An honor guard salutes the casket of Marcel Caux in the streets of Sydney during his state ...

An honor guard salutes the casket of Marcel Caux in the streets of Sydney during his state funeral. The casket is draped with the Australian flag and a subdued croud of mourners line the street in the background. Marcel Caux, born Harold Katte, was an Australian First World War veteran and the last known survivor of the Battle of Pozieres. 3863 Private Harold Katte enlisted on 6 September 1915 at the age of 16, telling authorities he was 18. He sailed to Egypt on the HMAT Runic with the 9th Reinforcements of the 17th Battalion and there joined the 20th Battalion. He was wounded three times in France, including in 1916 at Pozieres and in 1918 near Villers-Bretonneux, on the first day of the Battle of Amiens, his knee was shattered and his war ended there. He returned to Australia on 16 March 1919. Harold Katte had changed his name to Marcel Caux by the time he married Irma Davis in 1929. He remarried in 1941, to Doris Young. The French Government awarded him the Legion of Honour in a small private ceremony in Sydney, 1998. Marcel Caux was 105 years old when he died on 27 August 2004.

• The French Ambassador to Australia, M Pierre Seillan, makes a speech during the state funeral ...
• Former President of the New South Wales Returned and Services League of Australia (NSW RSL), ...
• An unidentified returned soldier stands outside the state funeral location holding a handmade ...