SHACKLETON'S MEN

Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 14, 16 January 1918, Page 7

SHACKLETON'S MEN

News has been received that Captain J. B. Stenhouse, who was in charge of Shackleton's ship Aurora, and who received the D.S.O. for eubmarine work, has again, been mentioned in despatches, and is now in command of one of His Majesty's ships. Mr. Thompson, who was with Captain Stenhouee on the Aurora, is his first lieutenant.

Sir Ernest Shackleton 'has been sent to South America, by the British Government cm special duty. Captain Worsley, of New Zealand, who was with Sir Ernest in the Weddel Sea, has been awarded the D.S.O.

A private letter received in Wellington, after referring to the good work done by the officers and men of the Navy, states: "Another case was that of a New Zealander named Worsley, who commanded a submarine, and was sent to take care of- an oil steamer. Accompanying him was a British destroyer. The weather wa6 bad, and increased to great violence during the night, and he lost the destroyer. In the morning a German submarine was encountered, and launched a torpedo. The noise made by the storm was so loud that Worsley did not hear the torpedo strike the steamer, but he 6aw her settling down. He whipped his submarine round, and discovered the Gorman submarine and sent her to the bottom. The only member of the German crew who was saved was the commander, whom ho took on board. _ Worsley then took tho oil steamer in hand, and brought hor safely to port." This no doubt refers to Captain Worsley, and probably was the reason for his receiving the" D.S.O. Dr. M'llroy, of the Weddel Sea party, has been wounded'in Uie arm. Hooke, the wireless operator, on th<? Aurora, is I now in the R.N.A.Sa