doli

By doli

"To the graves of stockade soldiers...

...and others."

BBC3
(Incidentally also the home of such classics as "Victoria Regina - the inspiring tale of the simple crofter's daughter who worked her way up to become Queen of England and Empress of the Greatest Empire television has ever seen.")
But I digress.

BBC3 - Blackheath Cemetery. The oldest graves.
If you follow the direction of the little arrow on the sign, down a narrow track for a minute or two, there they are, settled into the bush - a handful of marked graves and another handful (I believe) of unmarked and forgotten ones. I'm given to understand some of these are convict graves. The stockade was where the public school now stands and these graves were moved from there.
There are four soldiers, with almost unreadable sandstone headstones and several "others". This is the best preserved stone of them all and the only "other" with a headstone at all.

Had that day been 129 years later, he probably wouldn't have died. That's what the May Day banners are for.

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