<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>My Grandfather, dads father was a crewmember of HMAS Sydney that was sunk off WA in 1941 with all hands (645) lost so have a great deal of interest in that as to this day there has never been a full explaination of the exact details and plenty of government coverup. [/b][/quote]
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I LOVE this piece of our history....
We spent many days at Quobba Station on the WA coast last year (this is where the Kormoran survivors came ashore). There is a story that one of the German sailors buried some film footage of the engagement in the hills (pic below), needless to say, it has never been found.
Red Bluff (Quobba Station)

I understand that the Commonwealth Government has pitched into having a search undertaken for the wrecks of both the Kormoran and the Sydney. It is to be carried out by David Mearns who discovered the HMS Hood (from the Bismark fame) off the Iceland coast.
http://www.findingsydney.com/default.asp
HMAS Sydney Memorial in Geraldton

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