Full name Leonard Sydney Dockett Nickname(s) Len, Lenny Name Len Dockett | Date of birth 5 March 1920 Positions Half-forward line | |
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Date of death 1 January 2008(2008-01-01) (aged 87) Died January 1, 2008, Melbourne, Australia | ||
Leonard Sydney 'Len' 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. 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. He died on 1 January 2008, in Melbourne, Victoria.
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