POLAR MEDAL

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27407, 21 July 1954, Page 12

POLAR MEDAL

FOUR MORE HOLDERS FROM CHRISTCHURCH The list of Christchurch holders of the Polar Medal grew by four yesterday, and it is now established that nt least 11 men from the city, or former residents of it, have won the award. Mr Tom McGillion, now of Sydney, who was a pupil at the West Christchurch School, served as a seaman in the Nimrod in Shackleton’s expedition of l£oB, and he also went with Scott’s 1910 expedition. He was in recent years employed supervising the dispatch of trains in the Sydney underground system. Mr Jack McCarthy, of Lyttelton, was a seaman in the Terra Nova in 1910. Another Lyttelton man, Mr Arthur Beaumont, was in the Morning, the relief ship to the Discovery in Scott’s first expedition, the third officer being the man later known as “Evans of the Broke”—Admiral Lord Mountevans. Mr Beaumont recently retired after many years.’ service with the Lyttelton Harbour Board. Mr Eric M. Webb, formerly of Christchurch and now in Canada, served with the Mawson expedition.