From little things, big things grow, and Mount Compass Area School year 6 student Abbie Walsh is a shining example of how true that can be, raising $7000 for drought-hit farmers.

IMAGINE driving through a country town and being able to hear the stories of the community, from the people who live there.

A great stalwart of the agricultural industry, Ted Carter, passed away suddenly, aged 91.

The New England Soldiers' Club, a place for all members of the Australian Imperial Expeditionary Forces, camped at Armidale Showground in 1916.

Thanks for the socks but send more cigarettes: there's hope and humour in these letters home from a country lad fighting the Old Fritz in 1917.

I do think the war was a tragedy, even aside from the suffering and death it imposed.

Dungog is one Australian community that sent away its young men to war a century ago.

Thanks for the socks but send more cigarettes: there's hope and humour in these letters home from a country lad fighting the Old Fritz in 1917.

When at last the conflict ended on November 11, 1918, it left behind a country bereft with grief.

Fairfax Media put out a call-out for family stories telling the memories of their loved ones from World War One.