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Warspite119 Nov 2021 5:49 p.m. PST

Some of you may be aware that only one body washed ashore following the sinking of HMAS Sydney in 1941.

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The man was on a single Carley float and was wearing bleached overalls. It has now been announced that efforts to name him via DNA have finally paid-off.

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He has been named as Thomas Welsby Clark, aged 20. His grave in Western Australia, formerly marked as unknown, will receive a new headstone.

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Dan Cyr19 Nov 2021 9:28 p.m. PST

May his family know peace at last.

Dn Jackson20 Nov 2021 2:55 a.m. PST

God bless, and rest in peace.

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