Where The Dead Are Not Forgotten

The remains of the members of the crew of H.M.S. Sandfly who were murdered on Mandoliana Island, British Solomon Islands, by natives in 1880, have been carefully tended by the present owner of the island, Mr. M. Harper, who is himself an ex-navy man. When the British Admiralty learned that Mr. Harper had covered the grave with a concrete block, they had a brass plate cast at one of the dockyards, giving the names and other details of the murdered men, and sent it out to Mr. Harper. Mr. Harper has embedded the brass plate in the concrete headstone, as shown in the accompanying photographs. The two “boys” in the picture below attend to the grave each Sunday.