AUSTRALIAN TEST CRICKETERS
WAR SERVICE RECORD SYDNEY, Dec. 31. Of the 16 members of Australia’s last Test cricket team, which toured England in 1938, 13 joined the forces, one was rejected for the A.1.F., and the remaining two are on essential work. Four of the 13 .who joined the forces have been discharged for health reasons or transferred to essential work. They are Don Bradman, L. FleetwoodSmith, S. Barnes, and J. Fingleton. Flying Officer C. W. Walker, of South Australia, was reported missing from air operations over Germany last December, and later presumed to have lost his life. Others who joined the Air Force were M. G. Waite, W. A. Brown, and E. McCormick. Those who went into the Army were Ben Barnett (now a prisoner in Japanese hands), S. McCabe, L. Hassett, E. S. White, and F. Ward. J Badcock was rejected for the A.1.F., and W. O’Reilly and A. Chipperfield are on essential work.
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Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24150, 8 January 1944, Page 8
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