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Originally Posted by Roy
Great news,
This is the very least they should do. Courage like this is almost unimaginable. A short life but a memorable one.
Roy
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Definitively! He was barely 18 and gave his life to save his ship mates!
An 18-year-old with less than two years at sea, was an Ordinary Seaman on the minesweeper HMAS Armidale when it came under heavy attack from Japanese aircraft off the coast of what is now Timor-Leste in 1942.
Sheean is recorded as helping launch life rafts before returning to his anti-aircraft gun to fire at enemy aircraft that were strafing his shipmates as they floundered in the water, despite the order having been given to abandon ship.
Witness accounts from the day have him firing as the ship sank. He was never seen again.
Mick