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Family continues Doug’s Anzac tradition

Doug Wilkie's wife Perrina (right) with daughter Jillian Wilkie, and John Watson, Vietnam veteran, in Doug's Army Jeep with the newly mounted replica 50cc machine gun. (Photos: Fiona Chay)

A replica 50cc machine gun, made by the Longreach Men's Shed, was attached to the late Doug Wilkie's Army Jeep […]

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