| 14 May 1943.
East of Brisbane, the hospital ship Centaur Sydney to Cairns then New Guinea, was sunk by the Japanese submarine I-177. The ship was fully illuminated with her Red Cross markings lit up; of the 333 crew, nursing staff, and military personnel on board, only one nurse and 63 men survived.
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On weald of Kent I watched once more
Again I heard that grumbling roar
Of fighter planes; yet none were near
And all around the sky was clear
Borne on the wind a whisper came
'Though men grow old, they stay the same'
And then I knew, unseen to eye
The ageless Few were sweeping by
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