British Antarctic Monument Trust

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• 5: Memories
  • 5.1: Dulcie Bailey remembers
  • 5.2: Ian Boyd remembers
  • 5.3: David McDowell remembers
  • 5.4: Russell Thompson remembers
  • 5.5: Jim Turton remembers
  • 5.6: AB Eddie Large remembers
  • 5.7: Steven Smith remembers
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Memories

In the following pages you can read reminscences of life on base and the particular circumsances of the accidents that lead to the death of the explorers which we are commemorating.

David McDowell remembers David Statham, Stanley Black and Geoffrey Stride who died when sea-ice broke up on a depot laying trip to Dion Islands. Click here to read his memoire.

Jim Turton, who travelled with John Coll, Ambrose Morgan and was on the aircraft that killed Miles Mosley, remembers Graham Whitfield, Mike Walker and Geoffrey Hargreaves who were killed in a climbing accident on Mount Peary. Click here to read his memoire.

Ian Boyd remembers John Anderson who was killed with Robert Atkinson in a crevasse accident on the Shamblier Glacier 6 May 1981. Click here to read his memoire of John as undergraduate climbing companions.

Dulcie Bailey wrote an autobiography, when she was in her eightieth year in 1991, in a series of long letters to her youngest grand daughter who was then 10 years old. Click here to read her accountof the tragedy that befell the family when her son Jeremy was killed in a crevasse accident on an expedition from Halley Bay.