Digital object identifier: Shackleton Antarctic expedition biscuit sells for £1,250 "Shackleton returned to rescue Wild and his men - although it did take him four attempts.It was Wild's wish to be laid to rest alongside Shackleton and seven years ago a plan to fulfil that hope began to take shape.Angie Butler, author of The Quest for Frank Wild, discovered his ashes in South Africa, where he was a farmer after World War I, and made it her mission to bring them "home". and he introduced the family to the song's rude verses as well. We have found 43 people in the UK with the name Frank Wild.
Next, Wild took a temporary job as a hotel barman at Gollel in Swaziland which was owned by a friend of his. After Shackleton and five crew members set off to seek rescue, Wild was left in charge of 21 men in temperatures as low as -45C (-49F).They lived under two upturned boats and their meals consisted of raw seals and seaweed.Shackleton managed to make it to South Georgia, a journey of around 800 miles. But somehow they made it.
Having retrieved a banjo, and smuggled out a bottle of whisky from their sinking ship, he organised concerts - complete with liquid refreshment - to try to keep the crew's spirits up when they were forced to camp on the ice. Frank Wild took part in the following Antarctic expeditions: In 1901 he was a member of Robert Falcon Scott's crew as an Able seaman on the Discovery, along with Ernest Shackleton who was then a sub-lieutenant.
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His new wife, Beatrice (Trixie) Lydia Rhys Rowbotham, was 47 years old and ten years his junior. The whalers knew Shackleton but did not recognise him because he was so thin and his face had been blackened by the seal blubber the crew had used as fuel for a makeshift stove. These are external links and will open in a new window Frank Wild, the eldest of thirteen children was born at Skelton, North Yorkshire on 10th April 1873, where his father Benjamin was the village schoolmaster. Frank Wild (left side) beside Shackleton. But is he finally stepping out of the great explorer's shadow, as his ashes make a poignant journey south?Almost 100 years ago, the famous polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton set out to try to be the first to cross Antarctica.He failed, but his ill-fated expedition on the Endurance, which began in 1914, is now seen as one of history's greatest stories of survival and leadership. With the offer of a job as a store-keeper on the Babrosco Mine near Frank Wild died of pneumonia and diabetes in Klerksdorp on 19 August 1939, aged 66 years.
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But he landed on the wrong side of the island and was forced to scale a mountain range, that no-one had ever climbed before, to get to a whaling station at Stromness - all in the hope that someone would be there. See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions. Frank Wild was born in Skelton-in-Cleveland, North Riding of Yorkshire, the eldest of eight sonsFrank Wild took part in the following Antarctic expeditions:
However, the contract ended and he was forced to seek employment elsewhere.Wild's marriage to Vera was in difficulty shortly after arriving in Zululand and she asked for a divorce, which became absolute on 27 December 1928. From the deck of the Akademik Ioffe, Elephant Island looks savage - a row of snow-covered peaks rising perpendicularly out of the sea. At least, until now.Wild's relatives recently accompanied him on his final journey to Antarctica, as they took his ashes to South Georgia, to rest next to the grave of Shackleton, the man he affectionately referred to as "the boss".
They settled in Due to ill health he was forced to leave the mining job and he was given a job by his brother-in-law Pat O'Brien Frost to oversee the building of Frost's house in Haenertsburg in the Eastern Transvaal. Grytviken on the island of South Georgia is where Frank Wild and Sir Ernest Shackleton are now buried, side by side Frank Wild's great niece, Julie George, buries Wild's ashes in Grytviken, South Georgia In 1908-09 he was with Shackleton on the Nimrod expedition and in 1911 he joined Douglas Mawson’s Aurora expedition before being reunited with Shackleton aboard The Endurance From 1914-1916 .
He was also a great disciplinarian, with a good baritone voice and a love of music. In 1901 both he and Ernest Shackleton were members of Robert Falcon Scott’s expedition on the Discovery. It is too rough to land, which provides a sober reminder of the dangers Shackleton's men faced in lifeboats nearly 100 years ago. As second-in-command of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, Wild was left in charge of twenty-one men on desolate On returning to the United Kingdom in 1916, Wild volunteered for duty during From 1921 to 1922 Wild was second-in-command of the On 24 October 1922 Frank Wild married Vera Alexandra Altman (née Bogosoff), the widow of a tea planter of Borneo, at Reading Registry Office. Butler hands the casket symbolically to Julie George who places it in the ground. "Commander F. Wild, C.B.E.". View the profiles of professionals named "Frank Wild" on LinkedIn. He was cremated on 23 August 1939 at the Braamfontein Cemetery in Johannesburg. These are external links and will open in a new windowFrank Wild was the right-hand man to Sir Ernest Shackleton, joining him on several of his Antarctic expeditions.