In 2010, Wal Eastman (pictured here with his wife Berenice) received the Order of Australia for his services to the arts and the community. Image courtesy The Mercury.
Described by those who knew him as ‘one of nature’s real gentlemen’, ‘unfailingly kind,’ ‘humane and remarkably wonderful,’ and ‘a stalwart of Hobart’s theatre scene,’ Walter ‘Wal’ Eastman OAM passed away on Tuesday 9 January. He was 89.
