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Montevideo Maru mural unveiled in Stanhope to mark POW tragedy

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For many years, Clive Toms had no idea his two uncles had died in Australia’s worst maritime tragedy.

Claude and Cecil Toms, from the northern Victorian town of Kyabram, were aboard Japanese prisoner of war transport ship the Montevideo Maru when it was sunk by a US Navy submarine, the USS…



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