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You might never have heard of Teddy Sheean, and that's OK. But his family, and The Examiner in Tasmania, is keen for you to know more about the extraordinary Sheean.
We'll leave you to get the back story behind Teddy's outrageous wartime bravery here. Suffice to say of the 149 crew members on the HMAS Armidale when it was attacked by 13 Japanese aircraft, only 49 survived a particularly horrific attack. Sheean was not one of them.
For 17 years, there has been a campaign for Sheean, the youngest man on board, to be be recognised.
And just when the push, spearheaded by Tasmania's Veterans' Affairs Minister Guy Barnett and Sheean's family, looked like it was getting somewhere, the federal government has scuppered their hopes.
An independent tribunal last July advised Defence Minister Linda Reynolds to recommend to the Sovereign that Sheean be posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for Australia.
The federal government yesterday announced that was not going to happen.
Read more about Wednesday's gut-wrenching decision right here.
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