Photo: Dorothy Hall
Photo: Dorothy Hall
Photo: Dorothy Hall
Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Splevins. of Waterhouses.
The headstone reads:-
In loving memory of
Rudolph
dearly beloved son of
Thomas and Elizabeth
Splevins
killed on active service
Oct. 3rd 1940
aged 25 years
He died that we might live
A flower block reads:-
In loving
memory of
our dear
brother
from
Harry &
Connie
Rudolph Splevins was killed by a Marauding German Bomber on the 3rd October 1940, in the UK after the bomber spotted some of the 8th Battalion vehicle lights. He was the C/O driver, also in the same attack Major A .B. S. Clarke was wounded.
Acknowledgements: James Pasby
See Rudolph's brother Henry/Harry Splevins
Rudolph Splevins is remembered at Waterhouses on W132.04
He is also remembered in The DLI Book of Remembrance page 76 and in the Battalion History page 314
