Keren Sherwood on July 6, 2017 at 4:40 am wrote: My great uncle Bill, William Cornell, survived the sinking of the centaur. The book The Sinking of the Centaur, has photos of my uncle donated by my Aunty Elvira Cornell. Sister Ellen Savage was a regular visitor of my uncle’s, she was the only surviving nurse. I have a personalised copy of the book signed by the authors unfortunately someone stole a matchbox cover made from the first Japanese plane shot down in Darwin which had my uncle’s name dog tag numbers, the date February 1942. Also stolen were his war medals and a lighter made from to florins and a hexagon nut off the first jap plane that was shot down. My grandfather was on the search lights in Darwin.
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Keren Sherwood on July 6, 2017 at 4:40 am wrote: My great uncle Bill, William Cornell, survived the sinking of the centaur. The book The Sinking of the Centaur, has photos of my uncle donated by my Aunty Elvira Cornell. Sister Ellen Savage was a regular visitor of my uncle’s, she was the only surviving nurse. I have a personalised copy of the book signed by the authors unfortunately someone stole a matchbox cover made from the first Japanese plane shot down in Darwin which had my uncle’s name dog tag numbers, the date February 1942. Also stolen were his war medals and a lighter made from to florins and a hexagon nut off the first jap plane that was shot down. My grandfather was on the search lights in Darwin.