When Hugo Throssell joined the Light Horse during the First World War, he symbolised the Australian nation at that time: full of youth, courage and idealism. And when he killed himself in 1933, he remained as emblematic to his country as he’d been in those heady days of 1914 his youth and future forever darkened by the triumph and tragedy of war.

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Throssell, Hugo, 1884-1933
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