SLIGHT DAMAGE TO H.M.A.S. AUSTRALIA
(Rec. 9 p.m.) SYDNEY, October 26. H.M.A.S. Australia, the flagship of the Australian Navy, has been damaged superficially by an air attack during the Allied invasion of the Philippines. Nineteen of the crew are dead and 54 wounded. Commodore J. A. Collins, officer commanding the Australian naval squadron, was wounded and the Australia’s commanding Officer, "Captain E. F. V. Dechaineux, died from wounds. The announcement was made today by the Prime Minister, Mr John Curtin, who revealed that the action took place last Friday. The damage was confined to the upper deck near the flagship’s bridge.
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Southland Times, Issue 25505, 27 October 1944, Page 5
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