SOUTH POLE TO PORT CHALMERS

Evening Star, Issue 22271, 24 February 1936, Page 12

SOUTH POLE TO PORT CHALMERS

NAVY DIVER'S WANDERINGS Mr H. R. Young, of Hamilton, was diving at the Arapuni dam when he heard the call of the ice and joined Uyrd’s first south polar expedition. He saw the return to Little America of the first plane to fly the South Pole. Still enamoured of the Antarctic, he went m the second Byrd expedition to the Far South, and returned with it to America. Leaving the Bear of Oakland in Boston, he went to New fork , and joined the stcarper City of Dieppe, on which vessel he arrived at Port Chalmers on Saturday afternoon. Mr Young is on his way to carry out diving operations at Hobart. Before coming to New Zealand at the dose of the war Mr Young was in the Battle of Jutland and at the Dogger Bank. Altogether he served 12 years in the British Navy—where, he qualified as a diver—and 10 years in the Royal Fleet Reserve. He (holds the three war ribbons and the Fleet Reserve ribbon. He is also the holder of a medal and ribbon for life saving. Mr Young was awarded the Royal Albert Medal for blasting open the strong-room door of a German destroyer sunk in 28 fathoms of water in Scapa Flow, and obtaining valuable documents. It was on the Byrd ship City of New York he first went to the Antarctic, his second voyage south being in the Jacob Ruppert, from which he transferred to the Bear of Oakland as bo’sun..