Ross Sea Party / Crew List
This is a list of the members of the Ross Sea Party , the support expedition to the Endurance Expedition to Antarctica from 1914 to 1917.
| Surname | Born | Died | tasks | Remarks | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coastal group | ||||||
| Aeneas Mackintosh | 1879 | 1916 | commander | Died during the expedition | ||
| Ernest Joyce | 1875 | 1940 | Sled equipment and dogs | |||
| Ernest Wild | 1879 | 1918 | Quartermaster | |||
| Arnold Spencer-Smith | 1883 | 1916 | Chaplain and photographer | Died during the expedition | ||
| John Lachlan Cope | 1893 | 1947 | Biologist and doctor | |||
| Alexander Stevens | 1886 | 1965 | Chief Scientist | |||
| Richard W. Richards | 1893 | 1985 | physicist | |||
| Andrew Keith Jack | 1885 | 1966 | physicist | |||
| Irvine gauze | 1890 | 1978 | General assistant | |||
| Victor Hayward | 1888 | 1916 | General assistant | Died during the expedition | ||
| Aurora crew | ||||||
| Aubrey Ninnis | 1883 | 1956 | Specialist in motorized tractors | Should be part of the coastal group, but was on board the Aurora when it was driven away | ||
| Lionel Hooke | 1895 | 1974 | Radio operator | Should be part of the coastal group, but was on board the Aurora when it was driven away | ||
| Joseph Stenhouse | 1887 | 1941 | First officer, later captain | |||
| Leslie James Felix Thomson | 1886 | 1979 | Second officer | |||
| Alfred Herbert Larkman | 1890 | 1962 | Chief machinist | |||
| Charles Adrian Donnelly / Donolly | 1893 | 1973 | Second machinist | |||
| James Paton | 1869 | 1918 | Boatswain | |||
| Clarence Charles Maugher / Mauger | 1892 | 1963 | Carpenter | |||
| Sydney Atkin | 1879 | 1950 | Able seaman | |||
| Arthur Downing | 1893 | 1937 | Able seaman | |||
| William Kavanagh | 1884 | 1918 | Able seaman | |||
| John Thomas "Shorty" Warren | 1879 | 1945 | Able seaman | |||
| Charles Glidden | 1893 | Ordinary seaman | ||||
| Samuel Grady / Grade | 1885 | Stoker | ||||
| William Henry Mugridge | 1886 | Stoker | ||||
| Harold Shaw | 1885 | 1932 | Stoker | Excluded from being awarded the Polar Medal by Ernest Shackleton | ||
| Edward Wise | 1875 | cook | ||||
| Émile-Octave d'Anglade | 1893 | steward | Excluded from being awarded the Polar Medal by Ernest Shackleton | |||
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- Ernest Shackleton: South. The story of Shackleton's last expedition, 1914-1917 . Macmillan, New York 1920 ( archive.org ).
- John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 .