{"id":85668,"date":"2014-10-24T12:39:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T02:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=85668"},"modified":"2020-06-29T16:11:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T06:11:51","slug":"widgee-diggers-to-be-honoured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2014\/10\/24\/widgee-diggers-to-be-honoured\/","title":{"rendered":"Widgee Diggers To Be Honoured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>October 24, 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Federal Government grant of $5560 will help publish a series of commemorative books and presentations honouring the contributions of World War I diggers from the Widgee region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCentenary of Anzac funding will be provided to the Gympie Family Historical Society to produce a series of books and presentations that will document the stories of diggers from the Widgee region. Cemetery tours are also planned to involve the local community in the story telling process,\u201d Member for Wide Bay Warren Truss said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the outbreak of the First World War, volunteers from a range of occupations and regions from across Australia enlisted to fight abroad, and many of them hailed from small towns like Widgee. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSadly, many of these soldiers never came back, leaving behind grief and loss in small communities across our nation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Federal Government grant of $5560 will help publish a series of commemorative books and presentations honouring the contributions of World War I diggers from the Widgee region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[153],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Widgee Diggers To Be Honoured - 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