Explorer. He served as an Engineer and Warrant Officer on board the 'HMS Erebus' under the command of Captain Sir John Franklin on his expedition to find the Northwest Passage, a sea route to Asia, via the northern edge of North America. His actual birth date, place of birth, and his actual death date are currently unknown but he died sometime between 1845 and 1848. On May 19, 1845, Captain Sir John Franklin and a crew of 129 men boarded two ships, the 'HMS Erebus' and the 'HMS Terror' for what was to be a three-year journey. Also on board were provisions that included more than 136,000 pounds of flour, 3,684 gallons of high-proof alcohol, and 33,000 pounds of tinned meat, soup, and vegetables. The ships set sail from the port of Greenhithe, England, to the Arctic but were never heard from again. In 1848, several search parties were sent all over the Canadian Arctic landscape, but only a few relics of the expedition were ever found. From 1853 to 1854, and 1856 to 1857, several more prominent pieces were found including some written notes by Captain Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier and Captain James Fitzjames. It was revealed that nine navy officers and fifteen crewmen had died and Captain Sir John Franklin (and now Captain Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier was now in charge of the 'HMS Terror' and Captain James Fitzjames was in charge of the 'HMS Erebus') had also died on June 11, 1847, while the surviving men abandoned their ships that had become stuck in thick pack ice near King William Island, North-Western Territory (now Nunavut, Canada), and continued on foot to locate civilization towards Back's Great Fish River on the Canadian mainland. It is also thought that the surviving men had been seen by local natives in the Baker Lake area, about 400 kilometres (250 mi) to the south, but all later disappeared and eventually perished. The actual date of death of the 129 men is not known except Captain Sir John Franklin's on June 11, 1847. It is thought the men all perished between 1845 to 1848. Captain Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier and Captain James Fitzjames are listed between 1846 and circa April 26, 1848. In 1948, the Canadian writer and environmentalist Farley Mowat found a very ancient cairn, but the cairn was not made of normal Eskimo construction. Found inside were fragments of a hardwood box with dovetail joints. In 1976, three graves from the lost Franklin expedition were found on Beechey Island, Northwest Territories, Canada, by marine surveyors. The graves belonged to Marine William Braine, Stoker John Torrington, and Able Seaman John Hartnell. The team exhumed the bodies in 1984 and found them to be perfectly preserved, later determining that they had died from lead poisoning. Over the years since the graves were found several artifacts including human bones, tin cans, and man-made tools have been found by natives on surrounding islands. It was later discovered that the remaining crew was so hungry that they had turned to cannibalism because of starvation. In September 2014, after several failed attempts to locate the ships, the 'HMS Erebus' was finally located in the south of King William Island in Nunavut, Canada. Two years later in September 2016, the 'HMS Terror' was found in Terror Bay, further north, finally solving the almost 170-year-old mystery. The story of Captain Sir John Franklin and his brave crew has been featured in several books, poems, films, television documentaries, and songs. The latest being the American horror drama anthology television series, "The Terror" which was based on the 2007 novel of the same name by Dan Simmons and which premiered on the AMC Television Network on March 25, 2018. As of 2020 Parks Canada has been excavating the sites of both shipwrecks. In 2021 Parks Canada, plans to try and search the wrecks once again. On May 6, 2021, it was announced that a full skeleton found was analyzed using tooth and bone fragments through DNA testing and was positively identified as Engineer and Warrant Officer John Gregory. The remains of Engineer and Warrant Officer John Gregory and two others were first discovered in 1859 and buried in 1879. The grave was rediscovered in 1993, and in 1997 several bones that had been exposed through disturbance of the grave were placed in a cairn with a commemorative plaque. The grave was then excavated in 2013 and after being analyzed, all the remains were returned to the site in 2014 and placed in a new larger memorial cairn. The work was done mainly through teams at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and at the Lakehead University in Orillia, Ontario, Canada.