Grave of A.D. BROCKWAY; off the barge "Echo"; 
Accidentally shot while hunting wild foxes during 1849*.
Grave sited at Christmas Harbour in the ice of Gun Rock Hill.

Grave of Charles March SUPPLE; an old Irish Seaman; 
Died 15 Oct 1880, aged 70 years;
Grave sited on Great Island in Falkland Sound, 
near the old settlement which is now a heap of brick ruins.  There is also reference (Falkland Island Journal 1973) to a settler named Supple, who in 
April 1846,  enrolled as a Police constable in Stanley.

Graves of 5 men off English Navy Ships: 
Sited on southern slopes of Mt Egmont on Saunders Island, 
(The site of the first English Settlement in 1765):
   
Thos.  HARMWOOD    : died 20 Jul   1766;  off HMS Jason
   
John   COULSON     : died 29 Nov   1766;  off HMS Jason
   
Andrew ENNIS       : died 26 Dec   1766;  off HMS Jason
   
Robert DYER        : died 15 Apr   1769;  off HMS Favourite
   
Pte. Wm. STEADFELL(RM) : died abt 1769-1770; 
                           off HMS Favourite or Swift

*Note: The foxes which BROCKWAY was hunting would be the Warrahs; 
       now extinct, the last being shot in 1876. 

This site has more information on The Warrah

Two Photos of the gravesite of Charles March Supple

Kindly provided by C. Harris, taken 1997.

1.

The ground covering plant is "Diddle-Dee" - prolific in the Islands; bane of farmers but the small red berries make a unique and delicious jam!

2.

The ending of the surname Supple can just be made out.

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