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balls passed through his body, and wa^s subsequently ex- 

 tracted from beneath his shoulder blade. 



In December, 1842, he was promoted to the rank of 

 commander, and appointed to H.M.S. 'Clio,' a command 

 which he retained until the termination of her period of 

 commission in October, 1844. 



In the following March, he was appointed to the ' Erebus' 

 with Franklin, and was gazetted a captain a few months after 

 the departure of the expedition. 



Captain Fitzjames was a man of rare talent as well as 

 gallantry ; his sketches, and his writings, exhibit remarkable 

 vigour and accuracy ; frank, warm-hearted, and ever cheerful, 

 he was deservedly one of the most popular officers in the 

 Navy; most enterprising, active, and endowed with rare 

 powers of endurance, he was eminently constituted for that 

 peculiar service in which unhappily has terminated a career 

 of the highest promise. 



Commander Graham Gore entered the Navy in 1820. 

 As midshipman, on board H.M.S. 'Albion,' he was present 

 in the battle of Navarin (1827) ; became lieutenant in 1837, 

 upon his return from an arctic voyage in the ' Terror ' with 

 Captain (now Admiral Sir George) Back. Lieutenant Gore 

 was present at the capture of Aden in 1839 > a l so present at 

 the capture of the Bogue Forts, and Chusan, in 1840. He 

 continued to serve in various ships up to March, 1845, the 

 date of his appointment as senior lieutenant to the ' Erebus.' 



His promotion to the rank of commander took place in 

 November, 1846. 



Commander Gore's name appears in both the Franklin 

 records. In the more recent one he is alluded to as " the 

 late Commander Gore;" his death therefore occurred between 

 their dates, viz. 28th May, 1847, and 25th April, 1848. 



