caption death_date death_place birth_place other_names nationality birth_date known_for image article_title name occupation
photograph of william john wills 28 june 1861 cooper creek totnes , devon , england , uk in his teenage years known as jack british 05 january 1834 second-in-command of the burke and wills expedition william john wills.jpg william john wills
 william john wills surveyor , explorer
william john wills

william john wills -lrb- 5 january 1834 -- c.june / july 1861 -rrb- was a british surveyor who also trained for a while as a surgeon .
he achieved fame as the second-in-command of the ill-fated burke and wills expedition , which was the first expedition to cross australia from south to north , finding a route across the continent from the settled areas of victoria to the gulf of carpentaria .
