Students remember local diggers 100 years after they went to war

By Eryk Bagshaw
Updated August 23 2014 - 3:13am, first published August 22 2014 - 2:25pm
Lest we forget: Captain Nick Hornbuckle (left), Mount Hunter public school students Issac Latham and Chantel Wright and Sergeant Major Tony Lynch in front of the Mount Hunter World War I memorial. Photo: Getty Images/Christopher Pearce
Lest we forget: Captain Nick Hornbuckle (left), Mount Hunter public school students Issac Latham and Chantel Wright and Sergeant Major Tony Lynch in front of the Mount Hunter World War I memorial. Photo: Getty Images/Christopher Pearce
Mount Hunter public school students Issac Latham and Chantel Wright with the book on local diggers researched by year 5 and 6 students. Photo: Getty Images/Christopher Pearce
Mount Hunter public school students Issac Latham and Chantel Wright with the book on local diggers researched by year 5 and 6 students. Photo: Getty Images/Christopher Pearce

Exactly 100 years ago, the first soldier from a sleepy town south-west of Sydney enlisted in the Light Horse Brigade of the Australian Army.

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