While looking through some pictures on the State Library website, I came across this picture of Doug Walters.
The State Library has captioned it as:
Cricketer Doug Walters arrives to start his National Service at the Army Depot, Marrickville
In his biography “One of a Kind: The Doug Walters Story” Doug relates a story about signing up for National Service:
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| Found via Google Books |
His book refers to his initial recruitment at Kapooka near Wagga and then followed up service at Holdsworthy. He did not see active duty in Vietnam, and sadly his book makes no mention of his time at Marrickville!
But, we have another green baggy hat to add to our cricketing legends hall of fame!!
Marrickville Heritage Society 