Leonard Sydney Dockett (5 March 1920 â 1 January 2008) was an Australian rules football player in the Victorian Football League, and he also played cricket for the VCA Colts cricket team in the 1938âÂÂ39 and 1939âÂÂ40 season, making 22 runs while there, and for Richmond in the 1938âÂÂ39 and 1955âÂÂ56 season, with a total of 121 runs. In December 2007, he was awarded a life membership to the Melbourne Football Club.
Dockett was a sergeant in the 14/32 battalion Australian Imperial Force during World War II and served in Papua New Guinea. He died on 1 January 2008, in Melbourne.