This year signals 65 years since the introduction of National Service

By John McNeil
Updated August 2 2016 - 1:11pm, first published July 28 2016 - 11:12am
Celebrating National Servicemen's Day at the Little Street War Memorial.
Celebrating National Servicemen's Day at the Little Street War Memorial.

Between 1951 and 1972 a total of 287,000 young Australian men were called up in two separate schemes for compulsory training in the navy, army and air force.

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