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As war raged in Europe, a daring Aussie soldier made fools of his captors with a series of prison breaks.

In a single day, a young farmer boy found his mother dead, his father maimed, and himself whisked away to a life of servitude.

William Kerr Thomson worked his way up from nothing to become a hardware mogul during the gold rush, then blew it all.

Henrik Bull was a spectacular failure as a whaler, but to his surprise was feted as a hero for reaching the “last continent”.

He’s one of Australia’s best-known war heroes, but a little-known incident in France may have been his greatest act of bravery.

A serial killer who slaughtered his wife in Melbourne became a prime suspect in one of history’s greatest murder mysteries.

Victorians rallied in the streets to try and save Angus Murray from the hangman’s noose for the execution of a bank manager.

The Allies expected to lose half their men in the Gallipoli evacuation but a mastermind invented “silent stunts” and not one man died.

Tom Skeyhill found fame as a war hero blinded by an explosion, but he was simply a fraud who faked it to escape the trenches.

A modern-day treasure hunt is on for a priceless World War I artefact, which has been buried under one of Melbourne’s elite private schools.