Bourke Rock

Bourke Rock (52˚01'00" 128˚27'00" NW of Goose I, Golby Passage, SW of Bella Bella). Cdr Rowland Richard Louis Bourke (1885–1958) was born at Kensington, UK, and by 1902 had immigrated to Crescent Bar, near Nelson, BC, where his family operated a fruit farm. He returned to England, enlisted in the RNVR in 1915 and, as a lt in charge of motor launch ML276, was awarded the DSO for bravery during the Apr 1918 British raid on the German U-boat base at Ostend, Belgium. A month later, promoted to...

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