
Evripidis Mouxouris, a 104-year-old second world war veteran, will lead the Cypriot contingent at Friday’s march to mark Anzac Day in Sydney.
Mouxouris was born in Morphou in 1921 and enlisted to fight in the war in 1943 in the British army’s Cyprus regiment, alongside 800 members of Akel.
He served in Palestine, Egypt, and then Italy, seeing frontline action during the Battle of Ancona in 1944 as allied forces