Leonard Sydney Dockett (5 March 1920 – 1 January 2008) was an Australian rules football player in the Victorian Football League, and he also played cricket for the VCA Colts cricket team in the 1938–39 and 1939–40 season, making 22 runs while there, and for Richmond in the 1938–39 and 1955–56 season, with a total of 121 runs. [1] In December 2007, he was awarded a life membership to the Melbourne Football Club.
Dockett was a sergeant in the 14/32 battalion Australian Imperial Force during World War II and served in Papua New Guinea.[2] He died on 1 January 2008, in Melbourne.[2]
References
- ^ Register of V.C.A. 1st XI Pennant, District & Premier Cricketers: 1889-90 to 2011-12
- ^ a b "Len Dockett dies, 87". Melbourne Herald Sun. 5 January 2008. Retrieved 1 February 2008.
External links
- Len Dockett's playing statistics from AFL Tables
- Len Dockett at AustralianFootball.com
- History of the Richmond Cricket Club at Cricket Victoria