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If Mission Beach has any past residents who could be considered celebrities, the Cuttens would come closest. Maybe Dunk’s famous author, the Beachcomber, Edmund Banfield, or our incredibly successful Reef activist, John Busst, would be known more widely in their time, yet locally the Cutten family are icons. Their story is one of our most important.
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George Webb of Mission Beach was a farmer and a soldier; a man of few words who was actively involved in three major wars, the Boer War in South Africa in 1902, WWI in France in 1916 - 1917 and in WWII with the Citizen Military Force in Victoria, 1942 - 1943.