For those who haven’t heard about this already,Two days ago my 79 year old father, Cameron Sparks, was brutally assaulted in the painting studio below the family home. He’s still in intensive care at Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, out of immediate danger but heavily sedated to assist with the healing process. Unrecognisible due to the swelling and all the tubes and wires coming out of his body. He has no fractures or spinal injuries, although don’t ask me how. I saw the pool of blood on the studio floor amidst the carnage of smashed glass and broken picture frames. We won’t know if he has brain damage until they wake him up. Prognosis is apparently good but at his age… You know what I’m saying. The mentally ill neighbour who did this to him has been charged with attempted murder. That’s all I’m going to say about the crime…
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This photo is of Harry and Mervyn Sparks (centre and right) and a mate, Egypt, 1915. It’s from my Father’s collection and if I paid closer attention when he expalined such things, I’d be able to tell you more about who these two Sparkses were and what relation they were to me. The photo was used in an exhibition entitled “Was thinking of home today…” North Sydney and the World Wars. The exhibition, held at the North Sydney Heritage Centre 2005, ‘explored the impact of the world wars upon the people of North Sydney and commemorated the personal stories of those who went to war and those who stayed behind.’