William Braine

From 1845 he was part of an expedition to find the Northwest Passage, but he died early in the trip and was buried on Beechey Island.

[1] William Braine was born in Oakhill, Somerset in 1814, and enlisted in the Royal Marines during the 1830s.

[2] Braine was a part of Sir John Franklin's final expedition to find the Northwest Passage.

[6] He died last, and his corpse was in the worst condition, having been gnawed by rats before burial.

[7] Modern postmortem examinations suggested symptoms of tuberculosis and lead poisoning.