80 years on: only body from HMAS Sydney identified

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Eighty years to the day after the Australian warship HMAS Sydney II sunk off the West Australian coast, the only body recovered from the tragedy has now been identified, the Department of Defence announced.

New DNA evidence has confirmed Able Seaman (AB) Thomas Welsby Clark, from New Farm in Brisbane, as the previously unidentified sailor.

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