La Bella crew member Jack Denham, who died in 1905, finally gets headstone in Warrnambool Cemetery

By Gus McCubbing
Updated January 7 2022 - 7:56am, first published December 23 2018 - 2:00pm
Harry Ferrier, Warrnambool Mayor Tony Herbert, and Grave Tales co-authors Helen Goltz and Chris Adams next to Jack Denham's new headstone. Picture: Morgan Hancock
Harry Ferrier, Warrnambool Mayor Tony Herbert, and Grave Tales co-authors Helen Goltz and Chris Adams next to Jack Denham's new headstone. Picture: Morgan Hancock

For over a century a young sailor whose life was cut short after his ship ran aground had been laid to rest in Warrnambool Cemetery without a headstone until now.

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