Our past stories with Natalie Poole

Key points

• George Dight, a builder and farmer, served as a lay reader at St George’s Anglican Church in Trentham. He walked 20km each Sunday to conduct services in Barrys Reef and Newbury.
• After enlisting in World War I at 43, he suffered gunshot wounds and was repatriated to Australia in 1918.
• A 'Welcome Home' social was held for Dight and other wounded soldiers in Trentham.