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Book

Author
Scholes, Arthur [W. Arthur]
Title
Fourteen Men : Story of the Australian Antactic Expedition to Heard Island
Imprint
F. W. Cheshire, Melbourne, 1949, 273 pp
Description

First hand narrative of the expedition, based on diaries of the fourteen men on the expedition and at Heard Island from Dec 1947 to Feb 1949.

Heard Island Party:
A. V. (Aub) Gotley, senior meteorologist;
A. T. ("Shorty") Carroll, observer;
K. W. (Keith) York, radio-sonde operator;
A. R. ("Doc") Gilchrist, medical officer;
J. (Johnny) Abbottsmith, engineer;
A. J. (Jim) Lambeth, geologist;
A. N. (Norm) Jones, cook;
R. (Bob) Dovers, surveyor;
G. S. Compton, ("Swampy") Compton, assistant surveyor-geologist;
F. J. (Fred) Jacka, physicist;
J. E. (Jo) Jelbart, physicist;
L. E. ("Lem") Macey, senior readio operator;
A. (Alan) Campbell-Drury, radio operator and photographer;
W. A. (Art) Scholes, radio operator.

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