Henry Ernest Wild collection 1914-1916

Shackleton, Ernest Henry, 1874-1922

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Ernest Shackleton, leader of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition and part of two other Antarctic expeditions, acquired Polaris after her owner's financial trouble. Renamed Endurance after the Shackleton family motto Fortitudine vincimus (By Endurance we Conquer), she sailed intending to accomplish the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent. She departed for her final voyage on December 15, 1914 but progress was slow, averaging about 30 miles per day through pack ice. A month later, w...

Henry Ernest Wild

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Henry [Harry] Ernest Wild was born in Nettleton, Lincolnshire, in 1880, the brother of John Robert Francis [Frank] Wild. After leaving school at the age of fifteen, he enlisted in the Royal Navy, serving at home and abroad, and was promoted to petty officer. He joined the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition [Ross Sea Party], 1914-1917 (leader Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton), as a general assistant. Wild participated in the gruelling sledging programme to lay a chain of depo...

Wild John Robert Francis 1873-1939

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Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917). Ross Sea Party

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Wild Henry Ernest 1880-1918

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Stenhouse, Joseph Russell, 1887-1941

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Mackintosh, A. L. A. (Aeneas Lionel Acton), 1879-1916

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