Thomas Welsby Clark
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S4449 Able Seaman Thomas Welsby Clark was a sailor in the Royal Australian Navy, whose body was found on a life raft in the Indian Ocean, near Christmas Island, on 6 February 1942.
Clark in 1940, as an Ordinary Seaman on HMAS St Giles
Christmas Island
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Christmas Island, officially the Territory of Christmas Island, is an Australian external territory in the Indian Ocean comprising the island of the same name. It is about 350 kilometres south of Java
Thomas Welsby Clark
…S4449 Able Seaman Thomas Welsby Clark was a sailor in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), whose body was found on a life raft in the Indian Ocean, near Christmas Island, on 6 February 1942. Before his body was identified, he was widely believed to originate from the RAN cruiser HMAS Sydney, which sank off Western…
William Dampier (left) and Charles Swan (right) aboard the latter's ship Cygnet, as illustrated in a work by Jules Verne. Dampier was the first visitor to Christmas Island in 1688.
The Settlement, also called Flying Fish Cove, Christmas Island's capital
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Flying Fish Cove in golden twilight