PM recommends war hero Teddy Sheean for Victoria Cross

[slick_mick]

I guess this is well overdue.

PM recommends war hero Teddy Sheean for Victoria Cross. This would be the first ever Royal Australian Navy VC.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/fede...10-p55ka2.html

Mick

[Lancer 17]

G'day Mick

Thanks for posting this, it is just fantastic news and only over due by half a life time.

The Navy saw fit to name one of the Collins class submarines after him but the honours review board could only come up with a MID is just bloody scandalous. Thank god that this has been rectified at long last.

So does the submarine now become HMAS Sheean VC ?

Lest We Forget.

Phil.

[lifeochil]

Retrospective awards. Never agreed with them and never will. Our awards system became a laughing stock years ago with the interference of politicians and nothings changed.

[slick_mick]

I know there is a lot of controversy about retrospective awards, but to me this is a good news story in a sea of negative stories about Covid-19.

Mick

[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

[slick_mick]

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

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