[1] Captain Ballard is reported to have been an early settler who lived on Home Island in the mid-nineteenth century.

Captain Ballard and his dog were buried south east of the copra sheds on Home Island.

The collapsed timber headstone requires urgent retrieval and conservation before loss or further decay, brickwork edges stabilised and intruding vegetation cleared.

Captain Ballard and his family lived on Home Island in the mid-nineteenth century and were early European settlers.

[1] This Wikipedia article was originally based on Captain Ballards Grave, entry number 105361 in the Australian Heritage Database published by the Commonwealth of Australia 2019 under CC-BY 4.0 licence, accessed on 15 May 2019.