SHACKLETON'S MEN
Lieutenant J. R. Stenhouse,/well known in New Zealand as '• commander of the exploring ship Aurora, has been awarded the Distinguished Service Order. He was gunnery officer on one of His Majesty's ships which recently sank a big submarine. He is at present serving on a new warship. One of his comrades is . Lieutenant F, Worsley, who commanded the Endurance, the .other ship used by Sir Ernest- Shackleton's la6t expedition to the Antarctic. No fewer than 35 members of the expedition are now serving, with the British Forpes on land or, sea. Mr. F. Wild, who was left in charge of the party ,on Elephant' Island when Sir Ernest Shacldeton made his boat journey to Soutlj Georgia after the loss of the Endurance, has received a naval commission, and was recently serving in the White Sea.. Dr. Macklin, a member of the Weddell Sea pax*ty, is a surgeon with -the "tanks," and Dr. M'Uroy is with the West Lancashire ambulance. He was wounded recently. Major Orde, another member of the expedition, is in the flying service. Sir Ernest Shackleton himself has undertaken war em-vice.
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Evening Post, Volume xciv, Issue 73, 24 September 1917, Page 7
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185SHACKLETON'S MEN Evening Post, Volume xciv, Issue 73, 24 September 1917, Page 7
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