Families of Centaur Crew

From the December 20, 2009 Courier Mail.

Families of Centaur crew members were interviewed after the discovery of the wreck.

KEITH CLEGG-- son of Percy Clegg, a medical theatre technician from Warwick, who died.

HELEN MILNE-- daughter of survivor Dick Medcalf who died two years ago and didn't speak about it until the 1990s. "It was haunting him all his life."

BARRY McCOSKER-- son and nephew of two survivors. His father Vince was a20-year-old ambulance driver who was on the deck when the torpedo hit and thrown into the water where he clung to wreckage until picked up by a destroyer a day and a half later.

Another survivor became his uncle when that man introduced Vince to Dorothy, his mother.

After the war, his father organized memorials for the Centaur, but was frustrated by lack of government support.

MAX CHAPMAN-- son of victim who was born two months after his father Earnest's death at age 29. He says this comes six years too late for his mother Elaine who died in 2003. her ashes would have been spread on the site "to put mum with my father."

Better Late Than Never, However. --Cooter