Frank Taylor served in the army for six years – but the 93-year-old Eaglehawk man has been serving fellow diggers ever since.
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For the last 48 years Mr Taylor has been selling badges and pens for the Anzac Appeal. Each year he raises several thousand dollars.
“Every year I walk up and down Mitchell Street and go in every door that’ll open for me,” Mr Taylor said.
“I do it for as long as I can… but my legs are starting to ache a bit now.”
Walking is something with which Mr Taylor is familiar – during his military service in World War II his troop walked from Broome to Fremantle.
“It took two weeks and three days – and it rained every day,” he said.
But it is not his years of service which continues to motivate Mr Taylor.
“Why do I do it?
“My father went to Gallipoli… I think of him every year,” he said.
This year, just like every year for the last 48, you can catch Mr Taylor walking Mitchell Street in the lead-up to Anzac Day.