William John Wills
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Date of birth | 5 January 1834 Totnes | ||||
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Date of death | 1861 Cooper Creek | ||||
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English: William John Wills (5 January 1834 – June 1861) was an English surveyor who also trained for a while as a surgeon. He achieved fame as the second-in-command of the ill-fated en:Burke and Wills expedition, which was the first expedition to cross Australia from south to north
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William John Wills, lithography
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Monument to Burke and Wills, Melbourne