On 17th May 1927 the body of a deceased man, estimated to be aged 30, was discovered in a bathing box on the Ocean Beach of Sorrento, Victoria.
It was determined he had died from starvation and exposure approx. a week earlier.
Despite having tattoos - a figure of a lady, an American flag and the name 'T. McKenna', he was buried as an unknown.
Strong possibility he was a sailor lost overboard from a ship but no reports seem to have been made as such.
Coincidently there was a Thomas McKenna buried in Sorrento but there does not appear to be any link with the family.
*Mind you there are 31 'unknowns' who were buried in 1927 !
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