Richard Walter Richards collection 1914-1985

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Richard Walter Richards collection 1914-1985

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb15-richardwalterrichards

Expedition material (39 leaves), correspondence (3 leaves) and biographical information (103 leaves)

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Scott Polar Research Institute

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SNAC Resource ID: 6285763

Scott Polar Research Institute

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

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Richards, R. W. (Richard Walter), 1893-

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Joyce, Ernest E. Mills (Ernest Edward Mills), -1940

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Scott, Robert Falcon, 1868-1912

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

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Stenhouse, Joseph Russell, 1887-1941

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Richard Walter Richards

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Richard Walter (Dick) Richards was born on 14 November 1893 in Bendigo, Australia. He attended Bendigo High School and studied mathematics and science at Melbourne University. He was lecturing at the Junior Technical School in Ballarat when he was selected as physicist on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition [Ross Sea Party], 1914-1917 (leader Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton). Richards was a member of the party which had the task of laying a chain of depots across the Ros...