Veteran Story: Arthur Murdock (1898-1965) was born in Hughenden to Arthur Murdock and Zoe Button, he was working as a stockman on Antrim Station, Tangorin when he volunteered in October 1916. He trained at Enoggera with several units before being selected to serve as an Infantry man with the 41st Battalion. Murdock was taken ill during the voyage to England with mumps and hospitalised on arrival. He joined his battalion in France early February 1918 where they were deployed at Pont Rouge, south of Ypres. Arthur Murdock was wounded in the thigh, while the battalion was operating near Maricourt, and after treatment was repatriated home and discharged medically unfit. Murdock married Daisy Collins from Clermont in May 1919, one of the Wangan and Jagalingou people. Unable to continue his work as a stockman he was employed for two years as a police tracker, but was removed to Palm Island in 1928. In the 1930s he featured in buck-jumping exhibitions in Cairns and Hughenden and later employed at Wongallee Station. Murdock and Daisy Murdock had 5 children, the eldest George Henry Murdock featured in many Australian films often playing the part of his other working life - a stockman. Murdock was a proud Australian who raised the flag at the Anzac Day service on Palm Island in 1936 where he had been appointed Sergeant of the Native Police; he was a member of the RSL in Townsville in 1941 and later the Australian Legion of Ex-Servicemen and Women in Brisbane. He died of heart failure in 1965 at Clermont, where he is buried.
