What were the names of Robert Scott's crew?

Answer 1

The members of the British Antarctic Expedition 1910 (also known as the Terra Nova Expedition, after its ship), commanded by Captain Robert Falcon Scott, were spread across a number of different parties. The Shore Party based at the Cape Evans Hut on Ross Island consisted of:

Officers:

Captain Robert F. Scott, RN

Lt Edward R.G.R. Evans, RN

Dr Edward L. Atkinson (Lt-Surgeon, RN, parasitologist)

Henry R. Bowers (Lt, RIM)

Captain Lawrence E.G. Oates (6th Iniskilling Dragoons)

Tryggve Gran (Sub-Lieutenant, NR, ski instructor)

Scientific Staff:

Dr Edward Adrian Wilson (Chief of Scientific Staff, Senior Zoologist, Doctor, Artist)

Apsley Cherry-Garrard (Assistant Zoologist)

T. Griffith Taylor (Senior Geologist)

Frank Debenham (Geologist)

Charles S. Wright (physicist)

George C. Simpson (meteorologist)

Edward W. Nelson (biologist)

Messdeck:

Bill Lashly (Chief Stoker, RN)

Tom Crean (Coxswain, P.O. RN)

Edgar Evans (P.O. RN)

Patrick Keohane (P.O. RN)

William Robert Forde (P.O. RN)

Frederick Hooper (Steward, late RN)

Thomas Clissold (Cook, late RN)

Other:

Cecil H. Meares (senior dog handler)

Bernard C. Day (motor mechanic)

Herbert Ponting (expedition photographer)

Dmitri Gerof (dog handler)

Anton Omelchenko (groom)

Meares, Ponting, Day, Omelchenko, Taylor, Clissold, Forde, Lt Evans, and Simpson all left Cape Evans on the Terra Nova in March 1912. Walter W. Archer (Chief Steward, late RN) and Thomas S. Williamson (P.O. RN) both joined the expedition in 1912.

At the same time, another party, the Northern Party, was exploring the region around Cape Adare in Antarctica. This Party was commanded by Lt Campbell, the expedition's First Officer, and consisted of:

Lt Victor L.A. Campbell (Lt, RN)

Dr George Murray Levick (Lt-Surgeon, RN)

Dr Raymond E. Priestley (geologist)

George Abbott (P.O. RN)

Frank Browning (P.O. RN)

Harry Dickason (Able Seaman RN)

The expedition's ship, the Terra Nova, returned to Cape Evans three times, and therefore retained a large, mostly naval crew. The ship was commanded by Lt Harry L. L. Pennell (Lt RN). Other notable members of the Terra Nova's crew included James Paton (P.O. RN), who sailed with Terra Nova all three times and would go on to be the Boatswain on the Ross Sea Party's ship Aurora (part of Sir Ernest Shackleton's British Imperial Transantarctic Expedition), and Alfred Cheetham, who was Third Officer on the Endurance, the ship of the Weddel Sea Party of Shackleton's 1914 British Imperial Transantarctic Expedition.

Answer 2

Robert Falcon Scott's crew for his ill-fated expedition to the South Pole in 1912 included men such as Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, Edgar Evans, and Lawrence Oates. These men were part of the Terra Nova Expedition, with their names forever etched in history for their bravery and sacrifice in the pursuit of exploration.