Francis Edward Charles Davies

Francis Edward Charles Davies was appointed leading shipwright on the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913 (leader Robert Falcon Scott), with responsibility for fitting out the expedition ship Terra Nova and designing and building the expedition's prefabricated winter quarters. A member of the search party sent to look for Scott and those missing with him in 1912, Davies constructed the memorial cross which was erected over the cairn containing the bodies of Scott, Edward Adrian Wilson and Henry Robertson Bowers.

After returning from the Antarctic, he served with the Grand Fleet and on mine-laying operations during the First World War. In 1919, he travelled to Archangel in Russia where he was placed in charge of docking and repairs to all shipping operating in the White Sea and Dvina River.

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