From Australian Memorial Park Bullecourt : "Dr Ross Bastiaan is a Colonel in the Australian Army Reserve. He is a practising periodontist {dentist} in Melbourne, Victoria. More than 140 bronze relief plaques have been placed worldwide by Dr Bastiaan at sites of action where Australian Forces have been involved."
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Dr Ross J. Bastiaan
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Anzac boulder
This sandstone boulder (three quarters of a tonne) is one of 6 removed from a...
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William Burman, VC
Soldier. Born William Francis Burman. As a sergeant in the Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort's Own) he fought in the battle of the Menin Road Ridge. near Ypres in Belgium. His company was held up by a ...
Duke of Wellington
Born Arthur Wesley (later Wellesley) in Dublin to Irish parents. After the Battle of Waterloo in which 60,000 died Wellington wrote to a friend "Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a batt...
Person, Armed Forces, Politics & Administration, Race Issues, Ireland
Major Cecil Brown
A member of the Imperial Camel Corps for which he provided the statue in Embankment Gardens.
Pilot Officer Anthony Sainte Croix Rose, BA
Anthony Sainte Croix Rose was born on 17 February 1910 in Chipperfield, Hertfordshire, the son of Harcourt George Sainte Croix Rose (1883-1955) and Florence Norah Rose née Deane (1884-1970). The bi...
Leon Blanding
Lieutenant Colonel Leon McFaddin Blanding was born on 30 October 1918 in Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina, USA, the youngest of the seven children of Donald McQueen Blanding (1868-1934) and Ge...
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Saint Erkenwald
Saint. Also known as Ercenwald, Earconwald, Eorcenwald and Erconwald. Born at Lindsey, Lincolnshire. He helped establish two Benedictine abbeys; Chertsey Abbey for men and Barking Abbey for women. ...
Thomas Plater
Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.