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Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss, Cr Kathy Duff and Cr Ros Heit with Murgon State High School Year 9 students Hughie Alberts and Rachel Bryen … both students have ancestors who served in World War I \u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

September 15, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss dropped into Murgon State High School this morning to announce funding for $4982 to go towards the South Burnett Regional Council’s Centenary of Anzac book project.<\/p>\n

Year 9 students at a number of South Burnett schools are researching local World War I soldiers with the assistance of RSL sub-branches.<\/p>\n

The results of their work will be assessed and the best selected for publishing in a special commemorative book.<\/p>\n

A group of Year 9 Murgon students who will be doing the research as part of a major history assignment met the Deputy PM at a morning tea.<\/p>\n

Amongst them were several students who are descendants of \u00a0World War I diggers.<\/p>\n

Hughie Alberts, from Murgon, hopes to do his assignment on his ancestor Vincent Frederick Law, one of the many Aboriginal soldiers who served during the conflict.<\/p>\n

Rachel Bryen said one of her relatives – an Acworth from the Kumbia area – also served during the Great War.<\/p>\n

Mr Truss said his great-uncle, Jacob Truss, was killed in action in France in 1918.<\/p>\n

The Kumbia farmer “thought it would be a great adventure”.<\/p>\n

“He just wanted to get off his farm and see the world. Sadly he was killed in France. He is buried in a little town smaller than Kumbia.”<\/p>\n

Mr Truss said he was looking forward to seeing the book when it was completed.<\/p>\n

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