Blenkinsop Islet

Blenkinsop Islet (53˚17'00" 129˚19'00" NW of Gil I, Wright Sd, entrance to Douglas Channel, SW of Kitimat). Squadron Leader Edward “Teddy” Weyman Blenkinsop, DFC, Croix de Guerre (Belgium), died at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on Jan 23, 1945, aged 24. He was born at Williams Lk and educated at Victoria as a chartered accountant. After his Lancaster bomber was shot down over Belgium in 1944, he joined the local resistance but was captured by the Gestapo and imprisoned. Blenkinsop is...

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