The riddle of the Ku-ring-gai Sphinx
One of the strangest memorials to the fallen of The Great War in Australia is the peculiar sculpture of the Sphinx, in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park. The sculpture, a one-eighth replica of the famous Egyptian monument, is flanked by two small carved pyramids and forms part of a wider memorial walk in the national park. Stonemason and former WWI digger, William Shirley. The Ku-ring-gai Sphinx was created by a dying Great War digger, William Shirley, who served in the AIF's 13th Battalion. Shirley was relatively elderly (40 years old) and had perhaps been unknowingly sick with…