Vindicatrix Boy

Missing father

Max Chapman has spent most of his 65 years wondering where his father is.

He knows Earnest Ainslie Chapman was one of 268 people who died on the Centaur on May 14, 1943, just two months before Max came into the world.

See the full story and photo in the Sunshine Coast Daily.

Children applaud 86-year-old survivor
 
Hundreds of children applauded a survivor of the Australian hospital ship Centaur yesterday during services to mark the 66th year since the its sinking.
 
Martin Pash, 86, of Melbourne, laid a bundle of yellow flowers on the Centaur memorial at Coolangatta’s Point Danger, which the ship passed shortly before it was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine during World War II.
 
See the full story by Tuck Thompson of the Brisbane Courier Mail.