ROLL OF HONOUR.
HOSPITAL REPORT. CANTERBURY MILITARY DISTRICT. Removed from Dangerously 111 List. Stackhouse, E„ Corporal (Amberley). Still Seriously 111, Progressing Favourably. Hunter, D. H. B. (llurchison). DEATH OF ANTARCTIC EXPLORER. (By Cable—Press Association.—Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. .Cable Association.) (Received March loth, 8.10 p.m.) LONDON, March 14. Ernest Wild, a member of Sir Ernest Shactkleton's Antarctic Expedition, was killed on a mine-sweeper in the Mediterranean. H. Ernest Wild was a member of the last Shackleton Antarctic Expedition. He was one of the party of ten who were left stranded at Cape Evans in March, 1915, when the Aurora was driven by a violent blizzard from her moorings and was subsequently so badly damaged as to be unable to return to succour them. He was a brother of Frank Wild, second in command of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic (Captain Scott : s) Expedition in 1914, and who was in charge of the party on Elephant Island in the last expedition. The. late Ernest Wild was in charge of the stores of the Shacklcton Expedition.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16162, 16 March 1918, Page 7
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171ROLL OF HONOUR. Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16162, 16 March 1918, Page 7
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