Received his life membership in 1953.
Initially playing for Ainslie starting in 1940, Hugh Dudley Kruger was a busy man. Alongside his time playing AFL, he was also the football club secretary, and working for the ACT Department of health. He would continue playing until 1948, though due to the outbreak of the Second World War is only recorded playing 6 First Grade games. He held the position of secretary until 1941, moving to be a committee member in 1942, and enlisting in the army in January of 1943 joining the field ambulance crews in Papua New Guinea and Borneo.
After his service ended at the end of 1946 he would return to his work at the Department of Health, and to Ainslie eventually working as both Secretary and a committee member again. Roles he would inhabit until 1953, the same year he earned his life membership. In 1954 he would serve as Assistant Secretary, his final official role at Ainslie as he had received a promotion the previous year at the Department of Health and would continue to climb positions there. In 1972 he would be awarded a British Empire Medal.