The monument was commissioned by George Julius Brockman who is depicted by one of the five plaques, and the statue of Brown was sculpted by Pietro Porcelli.
One of the original plaques on the pedestal reads as follows: This monument was erected by G. J. Brockman as a fellow bush wanderer's tribute to the memory of Panter, Harding and Goldwyer.
Earliest explorers after Grey and Gregory of this "Terra Incognita" [this "unknown land"], attacked at night by treacherous natives, were murdered at Boole Boola near Le Grange Bay on the 13th November 1864.
Also as an appreciative token of remembrance of Maitland Brown, one of the pioneer pastoralists and premier politicians of this state, intrepid leader of the government search and punitive party.
His remains together with the sad relics of the ill fated three recovered at great risk and danger from the lone wilds repose under a public monument in the East Perth Cemetery "lest we forget.