ABOUT 32,000 households in the Dubbo electorate are getting the chance to learn about a Wongarbon labourer who joined the ranks of "Australia's most honourable soldiers" during World War I.
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Highly-decorated Sergeant James Lihou, who died after single-handedly charging a machine gun post, features in a booklet being distributed by State Member for Dubbo Troy Grant in the lead-up to Anzac Day 2014.
NSW Minister for Citizenship and Communities Victor Dominello joined Mr Grant yesterday in launching The Spirit of Anzac in the company of Dubbo RSL Sub Branch president Tom Gray and Western Districts Sub Branches president Greg Salmon at the cenotaph in Dubbo.
It is the second time that Mr Grant has issued a booklet honouring "people from the electorate who served our nation proudly".
Positive community response to the first guaranteed research and distribution of the second.
Mr Dominello and the ex-servicemen welcomed the booklet as a way for youth to learn more about the nation's war effort in the past century.
Other soldiers featured in the 2014 booklet include Corporal Cameron Stewart Baird who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his bravery in Afghanistan in mid-2013.
The booklet also lists Anzac Day activities in the electorate.
