Honouring war heroes
As a member of the Friends of Rookwood volunteer gardening group, over the last two Saturday fortnights we have been endeavoring to clean up graves in Sections 3 and 4 of the Old Anglican section which will be highlighted in the forthcoming Military Tour in November - details further on. Some are commemorating those bodies that did not come home after WW1 or those that did and died earlier than perhaps, they should have due to their war injuries. There are others from WW2 and even some American Civil War veterans. One grave I had worked on a few years back was in dire need of some TLC. The man buried there was a war hero, one most of us have never heard of and this blog honours him today. RALPH NORMAN SPENDELOVE Ralph was born in Toowong Queensland on the 4th of August 1890 to Benjamin James Spendelove and his second wife Amy Ann Benham. He was the third child in a family of six; two boys and four girls. Benjamin was from Staffordshire England. He married Emma Heath in April 1883