TO EXPLORERS.
ROYAL MEDALS AWARDED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received 0.30 a.m.) RUGBY, November 12. Five members of the Watkins expedition, which explored the Arctic ice cap in Greenland in 1930-31, have received from the King the Polar medals in silver with an inscribed clasp. H. G. Watkins, the 23-year-old leader of the expedition, was drowned in Greenland waters last year when a kayak, or Eskimo canoe, overturned.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 268, 13 November 1933, Page 7
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