Patrick Timmins...

In 1956-1972, Lieutenant Commander Patrick Timmins was one of several officers in charge of the shipwright and artisans training section in HMAS Nirimba, Quakers Hill, New South Wales.

More details HERE!
He rests at Crib Point Cemetery, which is not far from the Cerberus naval base...

Rev James Glover...

Rev James Glover rests at Cranbourne cemetery, an outer eastern suburb of Melbourne...
In 1861 the Reverend James Glover held the first service in the new St Peter's church at Mornington, though the church was not consecrated until 1877.
(Mornington is a bayside suburb on the Mornington Peninsula).
The Reverend had oversight of the Parochial District from Frankston to Portsea, where Dromana was served only once every six weeks.
It is interesting that this minister is associated with an Anglican church in both Mornington and Creswick, near Ballarat,
(only the latter mentioned on his headstone)
and yet is resting at Cranbourne ???...


An excerpt from Trove  10.1.1884:
We understand that the bishop has associated the Rev. J. Glover, Vicar of St. John's, Creswick, with himself in the charge of Christ Church Pro-Cathedral for the present, pending the arrival of the new vicar. Mr Glover will commence his duties after next Sunday.. Our Creswick correspondent writes:—“ Referring to my paragraph of yesterday, stating that the Rev. James Glover, Incumbent of St. John’s Church; Creswick, had been requested to take charge of Christ Church Pro-Cathedral, pending the arrival of the new vicar from England,

Jack (John) Tallis...

Jack (John) Morton Tallis was Composer-of-Honour at Monash University Department of Music...

He was the last owner of iconic Beleura House at Mornington...

mystery J.S. ...

mystery grave of J.S. at Mornington Cemetery...

- just the death date of October 1905...

and the Latin loosely translates as

speak no evil of the dead...

Coxhell...

Coxhell grave at Mornington Cemetery...
Thomas died in 1905 and Theresa died in 1907.


Nearby are the above two Coxhell family graves...

Charles...

Charles Heber Perrin (1867-1959 - grave at Tyabb Cemetery, Hastings...

As an engineer for the Victorian Railways, 

Charles Perrin worked on the construction of Flinders Street Station, 

several Murray River bridges, 

the Walhalla narrow gauge railway, 

the Bairnsdale-Orbost and Gheringhap-Maroona Railways, 

South Kensington-West Footscray goods line 

and the Maribyrnong River Viaduct on the Albion-Broadmeadows line.

More details HERE

Penelope...

Penelope Donaldson (1947-2005) - grave at Tyabb Cemetery, Hastings...

Erja...

unusual style grave - with no informative captions - at Flinders...

just the suggestion that the name is Finnish and perhaps a female...

Further, on the Billion Graves website, the surname has been recorded as Linden...

Sierra Nevada...

memorial grave at Sorrento cemetery for Captain John Scott and seamen...
They were sailing from Liverpool to Melbourne in the cargo ship Sierra Nevada 
which was wrecked on London Bridge rocks, Portsea Back Beach...9th May 1900...
The ship drifted ashore while waiting for a pilot.
The anchors were let go, but these did not hold.
The vessel broke up within half an hour in the rough sea, drowning 23 of the 28 crew.
Sierra Nevada is one of five iron-hulled trading vessels
wrecked in and around Port Phillip between 1883 and 1900.

so many stones...

grave at Crib Point Cemetery...
In the 1950 Commonwealth Games cycling event in Auckland, New Zealand,
Hector Sutherland won Australia's first gold medal in the individual 100km road race.
(Commonwealth Games cycling events were first held in 1934).

a heart for Ronnie...

there seems to be a sad story here...
This woman died 13.8.95, days short of her 30th birthday...

the Craigs...

grave of Anne Craig at Cranbourne cemetery...
The Craigs were a pioneer family in the Pearcedale region of Cranbourne...
They built a wattle and daub farmhouse at Quilly Park...
The farmhouse still stands and is the oldest known farmhouse in the Cranbourne shire...
More details about the Craig family
HERE

unknown music?...

grave at Cranbourne Cemetery...
Paddy was a life member at Springvale Little Athletics Centre...
The speaker designed headstone gives no clue as to the musical? connection...

community hero...

a beautifully designed grave at Cranbourne Cemetery...
Robert was a well-known identity in the Devon Meadows community.
He was involved in the local football, netball and cricket clubs...
Robert Flanigan's death in September 2007 was the result of a car accident,
was just a month after his father's death...
His father was Edward John Flanigan, and he too was a member of the football club...
Both men have been remembered with a plaque at the Devon Meadows Recreation Reserve
and a pavilion at Glover Reserve has been named in their honour...

united...

a grave at Sorrento cemetery...


this is the little plaque on the left of the cross...


this is the little plaque on the right...

The Logan-Bells had an amazing story,
beginning with the famous Scottish printing house of Bell and Bain...
For details, see my Greyscale Territory blog post
HERE

Travis John Harrison...

Travis John Harrison's grave is at Cranbourne Cemetery...
He was a rising jockey star, but died tragically in a car accident...
But his memory lives on with his cousin, Craig Williams,
who believes that if it wasn't for Travis' inspiration, he would not be riding...
Details are HERE...


Strangely, when I Googled Travis' story,
I found another Travis John Harrison (April 17, 1989 - February 14, 2009)...
He also died young, but in California...