As the late fall winds blew cold across Lake Winnipeg and the deserted shoreline, Randy Gerylo did one more sweep with his metal detector — a decision that plunged him into military history and led to a pilot’s widow in the U.K.
Gerylo’s discovery last November of a serviceman’s long-lost ID bracelet prompted a search that traversed a half-century in time and a distance of 5,800 kilometres, from Gimli, Man., to Ayr in Scotland.
It has also generated the greatest tale in his three decades of detecting.
“Everything you find tells a story, but this one told a little more. This was something that was a little more special,” said Gerylo,
