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Darwin, HMAS Armidale, and Teddy Sheean VC’s last combat action - how it took 78 years for Australia’s 101st Victoria Cross to be awarded About this event
Join Dr Tom Lewis, renowned popular military historian who will recount the gallantry of Ordinary Seaman Teddy Sheean and his last combat of action, as the HMAS
Armidale was being attacked by a Japanese air raid between Australia and East Timor in December 1942.
Learn how Sheean was posthumously awarded the Victorian Cross, 78 years after his death and how his legacy of bravery continues to be commemorated to this day.
Bookings essential, places limited.