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Fenerty
was there when the bodies of both men were brought
back to Melbourne. It sprung a large public
spectacle. Burke and Wills were Australia's
first hero's. They were also the first to have
a monument erected. The monument was placed
in downtown Melbourne in 1865, the year Charles
Fenerty left for Canada. Charles Fenerty writes,
"The
remains of Burke and Wills, the Australian explorers,
who died of exhaustion in the far interior were
brought to Melbourne and buried – suitable
monuments being erected to their memory by the
Victoria government – while the remains
of Gray, their servant who perished with them,
were left uncared for." |
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