A Jew, who like many others, enlisted as a Christian, Lawrence Saywell was the last Australian to die at the hands of the enemy in the European theatre of World War Two: on VE Day, 8 May 1945, alone in a field by a country lane, in the remote hills of Bohemia.
To read his gallant and moving story compiled by Peter Allen, former National Coordinator of the Centenary of Anzac Jewish Program