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Brass plate with the letters ROHB and WJK

Brass plate

Pictures Collection, H5099

Once attached to the box used to bring remains of Burke and Wills to Melbourne.

Funeral procession order

Printed order of the funeral procession

Australian Manuscripts Collection, MS 13071
Sketch of coffin with names either side

Pallbearers for Burke's coffin

Australian Manuscripts Collection, MS 13071
Sketch of coffin with names either side

Pallbearers for Wills' coffin

Australian Manuscripts Collection, MS 13071
Funeral procession winding into the distance

The Burke and Wills funeral procession

Artist unknown
Wood-engraving
Pictures Collection

Appeared in the Illustrated Melbourne Post, 24 January 1863.

Large gravestone

Burke and Wills monument, Melbourne General Cemetery

c1950
Photographer unknown
Pictures Collection, H 91.50/1369

Commissioned by Victorian Railways.

 
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