A MELANCHOLY END

Evening Star, Issue 14315, 14 March 1910, Page 6

A MELANCHOLY END

ONE OF SHACKLETON’S MEN COMMITS SUICIDE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. MELBOURNE, March 13. Bertram Amytage, who was a member of Sir E. Shackleton’s South Polar expedition, committed suicide in his bedroom at the Melbourne Club. He was found lying dressed in his evening clothes, with his Antarctic medals on his breast and clutching a Colt's revolver in his loft hand, and with a shot through the forehead. No cause so far can be assigned for the deed. MR ARMYTAGE’S CAREER. [Special to the Stab.] CHRISTCHURCH, March 14. Mr Amytage, who joined Shackleton’s expedition "for general work, was born in Australia in 1869. He served several years in the Victoria Militia and ono year with the Victoria Permanent Artillery, after which he was appointed to the Carabineers when on active service in >South Africa. Lieutenant Shackleton, on his return from the Antarctic, spoke in the highest terms of Air Armytago’s pluck and energy. He joined the expedition from sheer lovo of adveA uro, this being the crowning point of his life as a sportsman and explorer. He endeared himself to all the other members of the expedition by his genial goodnature, his willingness to tackle the hardest as well as the most menial tasks, and his tireless energy throughout the arduous sojourn in tno southern wilds.