War Veteran

“Bugger all we could do about it” – conscription haunts veteran 50 years later

The Lake News | January 29, 2023 | 6 min read | 0

By Aiden Taylor Richard Hewitson, 21-years-old in Vietnam. Forest Lake resident Richard Hewitson got up to drinking 22 stubbies a day before he realised something was wrong. A trip to the psychiatrist later found he was suffering from PTSD, stemming from his time as a conscripted soldier in the Vietnam War. Last month marked 50…