Billy Thompson

Billy Thompson is now 64, he was born in 1950 in the town of Geraldton. Billy now lives in Beverley a small wheat belt town 140 kms east of Perth. He volunteered for the army in 1971 at the height of Vietnam. He did not want to go into the ballot and thought the best way to get into the army was to volunteer. Men and women were picked in the ballot when they turned 20 years of age but he wanted to get in the quickest way possible.