The following are key events that happened in Stanthorpe during 1917:
• 30 November
Heroes Day to be celebrated the following day and declared a public holiday throughout the town.
Broadwater Presbyterian Church opened
• 9 November
Electric light for Stanthorpe – move from a private company.
Notices of fallen servicemen – Private G. A. Cope (formerly an accountant, Commercial Bank), Sgt. Roy Quick (killed in action November 14 and was previously reported missing from November 14, 1916), Pt. Cecil Bott(when he enlisted lin 1916 could not have been more than 18 years of age), Private Arthur Herbert Potts (Railway worker, 28).
• 19 October
Private Joseph Lawer (could not have been more than 20) and L.A.J. Longhurst (24 years of age, 25th Battalion).
• 5 October
Sgt Garry Hall, 24 years of age, engineer
• 3 October
Planting the first tree on the Soldier Settlement
• 28 September
Pte George Henry Hughes, one of four brothers
• 21 September
Pvt Walter Potts
• 7 September
Out Boys in Egypt, Impressions of Gaza (letters)
• 4 May
Pte Edward Hindmarsh
• 6 April
Lance Corporal Gee Crowther, 34, Glen Aplin
• 23 February
H.J. Batterham, 42nd Battalion, 20 years of age.
• 7 February
Pt E. Beddow
Other events in 1917:
Soldiers Memorial Fund began collecting and the Commonwealth Discharged Soldiers’ Settlement Act allowed the purchase of 17,000 acres around Stanthorpe for fruit cultivation.
