David Wilson Barker

David Wilson Barker served on HMS Worcester the Royal Navy training ship that had once been home to Henry Bowers. Bowers was a member of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913 (leader Robert Falcon Scott), he undertook the winter journey to the Cape Crozier emperor penguin rookery with Edward Wilson and Apsley Cherry-Garrard and later was a member of the Pole Party (Scott, Wilson, Edgar Evans and Lawrence Oates) who attained the South Pole on 17 January 1912.

From the guide to the David Barker collection, 1916, (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge)