This officer from the Franklin Expedition perished in the Arctic wearing a uniform that was not his own. Now, DNA has uncovered his true identity.
Recent studies have uncovered four participants from the ill-fated 1845 expedition searching for the Northwest Passage, among them the owner of a wallet filled with papers that has perplexed historians for years Meilan Solly | Senior Associate Digital Editor, History May 8, 2026 12:07 p.m. A 19th-century illustration of HMS Erebus, one of the two vessels involved in John Franklin’s 1845 […]