Farmer and politician Hubert Anthony was seventeen when he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in October, 1914. He served at Gallipoli until he was evacuated to England with illness in August 1915. He was discharged in October 1916. His war correspondence and diaries were published in 2009.
After initial setbacks, Anthony became a successful banana grower and in 1928 he founded the New South Wales Banana Growers' Federation. He won the northern New South Wales Federal seat of Richmond, for the then Australian Country Party at the 1937 general elections, which he held until his death. He served as minister for transport, postmaster-general and minister for civial aviation.
Source: Lloyd Brodrick, 'Anthony, Hubert Lawrence (Larry) (1897 - 1957)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 13, Melbourne University Press, 1993, pp 61-62.
