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Poignant Story Of Reynold Bray's Death
London, Dec. 29. News carried by an Eskimo runner and relayed across the snows of Canada revealed to a girl in Clay-gate, Surrey, yesterday that for three months she had been a widow; that her hus- band had died in the Arctic circle without hav- ing seen his daughter, born four months ago. For Reynold Bray, an explorer, aged twenty-six, had set off on his last expedition two months before his baby was born. He could not wait. A month later and the ice would have closed the passage to the Arctic.
Before he sailed he took his wife overturned,
ona holiday to the Island of Bray was trapped and drowned Handa, off the coast of Scotland in the ice-cold water. Baird jump- to the bank and an island inhabited only by ed, scrambled
un foot to struggled through Igloolik.
birds.
There they decided that the unborn baby should be called Handa, after the holiday isle.
And when the girl was born he cabled greetings to Handa, the daughter who will never see him.
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There were other messages be- fore he travelled beyond the reach of letters, and last October Mrs. Bray received her last word.
"Send me photographs of the baby," he wrote.
His telegram, sent to the dead 'man's father and mother, Cap- ta'n. and Mrs. Jocelyn Bray, of Ockham, Surrey, arrived yester- day. It said: "Very much regret report Reynold drowned on September 14 near Igloolik."
And his widow, when I saw her last night in her mother's home in letter Claygate, said: "I have a written to him, ready to post. But it is no use now."
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Before that letter reached Mrs. Bray her husband was dead. The 29ft. boat in which he and his com- panion, Mr. Patrick Baird, were fighting their way through the ice to the Arctic
Bray's name adds another to a scroll of English heroes in snow and ice of polar adventure.
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