SACRED
TO THE
MEMORY
OF
Capt. A.L.A. MacKINTOSH. R.N.R. AND
V.G.HAYWARD
WHO PERISHED ON THE SEA-ICE IN A BLIZZARD
ABOUT MAY 18TH 1916
AND OF
THE REV. A.P. SPENCER-SMITH. B.A.
WHO DIED
ON THE
ROSS BARRIER
ON
MARCH 16TH
1916
A PAPER BEARING THIS INSCRIPTION,
WRITTEN BY THEIR COMRADE
A.K.K JACK WAS FOUND IN THE ICE FILLED
HUT BY THE
NEW ZEALAND HUTS RESTORATION PARTY,
1960.
JACK AND JOYCE WHO MADE AND ERECTED
THIS CROSS
HAD NOT ENOUGH TIME TO CARVE THE INSCRIPTION
ON IT.
_____________ . _____________
THIS PLAQUE WAS ERECTED BY ANTARCTIC
DIVISION D-S.I.R. N.Z. 1962-1963
Picture courtesy of Mike Usher
- Mike went on a Ross Sea expedition on board the Kapitan Khlebnikov
in 2005.
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