AAP General News (Australia)
08-26-2001
WA: Tomb of unknown sailor about to be exhumed
Preparations have begun to exhume the body of Christmas Island's Unknown Sailor.
Permission has been granted by the federal government for a Royal Australian Navy team
to excavate a gravesite at the island's cemetary in a bid to identify the body.
The sailor, dressed in blue overalls and carrying no identification, was washed ashore
on February 6, 1942.
It's believed he was from the ill-fated HMAS Sydney, which was destroyed in a battle
with the German raider HSK Kormoran on November 19, 1941.
A navy spokesman says the exhumation team has started marking out the area thought
to contain the body of the Unknown Sailor, and digging is expected to start tomorrow.
AAP RTV ajm/jmt
KEYWORD: GRAVE (PERTH)
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