Canberra High School's principal from 1949 to 1959 was a World War 1 veteran, Frank Bennett Jones.
Born in Drummoyne in Sydney in 1897, Frank served as a driver with the 37th Battery of the Australian Imperial Forces between 1917 and 1919 in Belgium and France.
Jones was teaching in Hay, Wagga and Armidale before being appointed to Canberrra High in 1949. Jones' French textbook, Explanatory French Grammar for Early and Intermediate Years, was widely used across the NSW Education System at the time. It was first published by Angus and Robertson in 1931, and four further editions followed, with the last in 1960.
Jones was well known in Canberra as a member of the Alliance Francaise, of Rotary and the Masonic Lodge. Jones died on 3 June 1959.
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