A young draftee being deployed to Vietnam farewells family at Perth Airport, Western Australia, 1966 [picture] /

Title devised by cataloguer based on information from acquisitions documentation.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Published in: The West Australian, Perth's morning daily newspaper.; Reproduction of: 1 photograph : b&w; Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.; Purchased from the photographer 2010. "Surrounded by his grieving family, an 18-year-old National Service draftee prepares to board an aircraft bound for Sydney on his way to fight in the Vietnam war in 1966. The names of the unlucky draftees were selected by ballot in a system that had been set up by the Menzies' Government earlier that year--Information supplied by photographer