Spencer Walklate
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| Full name | Spencer Henry Walklate | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 11 January 1918 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 3 April 1945 (aged 27) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Weight | 15 st 0 lb (95 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Prop, Second-row | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Allegiance |  Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Branch | Australian Army | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Service years | 1943-1945 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Unit | Z Special Unit | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Spencer Walklate (11 January 1918 – 3 April 1945) was an Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s and served as a special operations serviceman who was killed in action in World War II.
Spencer "Sam" Walklate was born in Maclean, New South Wales and came to the St George Dragons in 1942 during World War II. A policeman at Darlinghurst, Walklate was a big, strapping front row forward who made an immediate impact at the club with his fearless attack and defence. He played his last game for the St George on 8 April 1944 after suffering a knee injury.[2][3]
War service
Walklate had enlisted in the Australian Army at the end of the 1943 season and joined an elite special-ops group sent to New Guinea, which was under Japanese occupation at the time.