Rylatt Rock

Rylatt Rock (52˚27'00" 129˚05'00" W of Prior Passage, off SW Aristazabal I, Hecate Str). Sgt Robert M Rylatt was a member of the Columbia detachment of Royal Engineers, which served in BC 1858–63. He was born in November 1832 at Lincoln, England, and apprenticed as a stonemason, joining the Royal Sappers and Miners and serving in Turkey and Russia during the Crimean War. Shortly after the war, in June 1858, he married Jane Latimer and travelled to BC in January 1859 aboard the Euphrates, in...

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