After her father's demobilisation from the army, the family returned to his native Belorussia and settled in a village where both parents worked as schoolteachers.
Pending demobilisation from the Fleet Air Arm, in which he served from 1942-46, he simply presented himself at Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, in Stratford, east London - and, being no actor, evolved from driving the van that carried the lights, to hanging the lights themselves, focusing them on the action, and pro viding the odd door or wall as required.
Future child demobilisation, especially from government or government-allied forces in the event of a north-south peace agreement, will present new and "enormous" challenges.
After demobilisation he graduated from Holy Cross College in Massachusetts, and followed an elder brother into the Society of St Joseph, an order devoted to helping African-Americans.
Campo Dos, a swampy hamlet near Apartadó in the Urabá region, north-west Colombia's banana country, was the scene for the first demobilisation of troops from the right-wing United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia (AUC), in which 452 fighters known as the "Banana Block" gave up their weapons to the government.
Negotiators in January tasked the UN with monitoring adherence to an eventual ceasefire and resolving disputes emerging from the demobilisation.
Yet apart from a showy demobilisation by a few hundred vigilantes in Medellín in November, little progress had been made.
An important part of this programme will address the demobilisation and reintegration of children from government forces and allied militia.
From September 1918 until her demobilisation in May 1920 she worked at several Casualty Clearing Stations, these were further back from the front line than the Aid Posts and Field Ambulances.
One of the lessons learned from past experiences with disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) programmes that we have applied in Cote d'Ivoire is that child demobilization should not be contingent on formal peace processes or more comprehensive DDR exercises.
UNICEF has negotiated with the UNMIL that children will be prioritised in the process and will not spend longer than 72 hours in the demobilisation camps, where they will be separated from adult combatants.
