Person    | Male  Born 7/3/1876  Died 17/2/1912

Edgar Evans

Categories: Exploring

Countries: Arctic & Antarctic, Wales

Born Wales. Met Scott when both were serving in the Royal Navy.
One of Scott's four companions who died with him, returning from the South Pole. Injured on the way to the pole he was the first to die.

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Edgar Evans

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Captain Scott statue

Sculpted by Kathleen Scott, his widow. There is a replica, in Christchurch, N...

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Henry Robertson Bowers - SW16

{Beneath a photograph of Bowers:} Henry Robertson "Birdie" Bowers, 1883 - 191...

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Robert O. Sargent

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