Ranald Kenneth Macalister

Description

An Isle of Skye Son and pioneer of Gippsland. Ambushed and speared by Blacks near Brewery Paddock, Alberton June 1843.

Manager Boisdale station for brother, Capt. Lachlan Macalister SM, of "Clifton" Picton, NSW. Discoverer of Gippsland 1839/40 who arrived in the Colony in 1817 as Ensign in the 46th Regt. Foot.

This murder triggered the formation of the Gippsland Brigade and retribution at Warrigal Creek.

This gravesite has been lost since 1912, after a bushfire passed through and has been resurrected by Max Milton Macalister, a distant relative. At rest far from Skye, but not forgotten.

Per Mare Per Terras, 2004