DROWNED EXPLORER
BABY TO BE NAMED AFTER ISLAND THREE MONTHS OLD TRAGEDY IBy Air Mail—Special Correspondent! LONDON. 31st December. What does Mrs Reynold Bray, the young widow of the English explorer j who was drowned in the Arctic last September, think about exploration? When she heard this week of the three-months-old tragedy, she said: “I am glad I did not hear sooner, as my baby daughter only arrived in August and the shock might have been serious for us both. “I have been holding the christening up until 1940, when I expected my husband to return “It have decided to call her Handa, after a rockly island off the coast of Scotland. It is famous for birds, and my husband, who was an ornithologist, loved it deeply. “He never saw our child, as he left England in July.’ Asked if she did not feel all the time her husband was away that something like this might happen to him. Mrs Bray, who lives in Surrey, replied: “No. When you marry an explorer you marry exploration. You don’t live in dread all the time any more than the explorer does. If you did, life would be intolerable.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 25 January 1939, Page 8
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196DROWNED EXPLORER Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 25 January 1939, Page 8
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