THE ANTARCTIC HEROES’ MEMORIAL AT QUEENSTOWN, LAKE WAKATIPU, OTAGO The inscription reads: “Erected with funds collected by the- 42nd Coy. Senior Cadets, to commemorate the patient, stublrorn, invincible courage, the loyal comradeship, and brilliant achievement of Captain Robert halcon Scott. C.\ .0.. R.N., Hr Edward Adrian Wilson, F.A.S.. Captain Lawrence E. G. Oates (Inniskilling Dragoons). Lieut. Henry R. Bowers, R.1.M.. and Petty-officer Edgar Evans. R.N., who reached the South Pole on January 17. 1012. and perished on the return journey. They rest in the great White Silence’of the Antarctica, amid the scenes of their triumphs, wrapped in the winding sheets of the Eternal Snows. Sub umbra crucis.”
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Otago Witness, Issue 3117, 10 December 1913, Page 41 (Supplement)
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107THE ANTARCTIC HEROES’ MEMORIAL AT QUEENSTOWN, LAKE WAKATIPU, OTAGO The inscription reads: “Erected with funds collected by the- 42nd Coy. Senior Cadets, to commemorate the patient, stublrorn, invincible courage, the loyal comradeship, and brilliant achievement of Captain Robert halcon Scott. C.\ .0.. R.N., Hr Edward Adrian Wilson, F.A.S.. Captain Lawrence E. G. Oates (Inniskilling Dragoons). Lieut. Henry R. Bowers, R.1.M.. and Petty-officer Edgar Evans. R.N., who reached the South Pole on January 17. 1012. and perished on the return journey. They rest in the great White Silence’of the Antarctica, amid the scenes of their triumphs, wrapped in the winding sheets of the Eternal Snows. Sub umbra crucis.” Otago Witness, Issue 3117, 10 December 1913, Page 41 (Supplement)
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