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The (Formerly) Unknown Australian Sailor AB Thomas Welsby Clark

Posted on December 18, 2021 By Docwinters No Comments on The (Formerly) Unknown Australian Sailor AB Thomas Welsby Clark
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19-NOVEMBER-1941, While serving in the Royal Australian Navy as a submarine detector, Able Seamen Thomas Welsby Clark served aboard the Light Cruiser HMAS Sydney II in the Second World War, when the Sydney was sunk by the German commerce raider HSK Kormoran with the loss of all hands. three months later, the unidentified remains of an Australian sailor in a Carley Float would wash ashore on Christmas Island and would be buried with full honours. it would take 80 years for those remains to be identified. 

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