Teddy Sheean VC remembered in Ballina – Echonetdaily
Member for Richmond Justine Elliot with Naval Association of Australia Ballina President Merv Stevens, opening the Teddy Sheean exhibit at the Ballina Naval and Maritime Museum this week. Photo David Lowe. Member for Richmond Justine Elliot spoke to a group who gathered at the Ballina Naval and Maritime Museum this week to remember Victoria Cross winner, Teddy Sheean, who was posthumously awarded the Commonwealth’s highest award for bravery in 2020. Teddy Sheean grew up in Tasmania, and was only eighteen when he died on the corvette HMAS Armidale, near Timor, in 1942. Heroically sacrifici...
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