Created by artist Kelly Wallwork, through Inner West Council’s Perfect Match Street Art Program, the mural depicts activist women from the Save Our Sons movement who held silent vigils and protests at the gates of our Addison Road Community Centre site when it was an army depot. The protests took place in the 1960s and1970s against the conscription of young Australian men during the Vietnam War.
The mothers of ‘Save Our Sons’, the anti-conscription group active during the period of the Vietnam War, protested at the gates of Addison Road Army Depot at every intake of soldiers for Vietnam between the years of 1965 and 1972.

“So, on February 1, commencing at 8.30 a.m. and continuing until 1.30 p.m., we will be conducting our usual silent vigil at Marrickville.

Will you make a special effort to attend – and bring others?

The Depot is in Addison Road, Marrickville. Those travelling from the city can get bus 448, destination Canterbury Station, which runs from Circular Quay along Pitt Street and passes the Army Barracks.”

S.O.S Newsletter No. 8, January 1967