Frank Wild - Forgotten Polar Explorer From Skelton

[rob_fmttm]

Frank Wild: Antarctica's Forgotten Hero Frank Wild: Antarctic adventurer. Frank Wild, who hailed from Skelton, was the most decorated Polar explorer of the great heroic age and second in command to Ernest Shackleton on the ill-fated Endurance expedition to Antarctica's South Pole.
Here is the first of three brand new short videos to remember the Skelton explorer - Part of Local History Month.

 

[Norman_Conquest]

Frank gets a good mention in Shackelton's book.

 

[jam69]

Facebook north east statues featured his this week

 

[Norman_Conquest]

Frank Wild: Antarctica's Forgotten Hero Frank Wild: Antarctic adventurer. Frank Wild, who hailed from Skelton, was the most decorated Polar explorer of the great heroic age and second in command to Ernest Shackleton on the ill-fated Endurance expedition to Antarctica's South Pole.
Here is the first of three brand new short videos to remember the Skelton explorer - Part of Local History Month.

Thanks for sharing this - excellent.

Do you have a link for the other video she mentions?

 

[rob_fmttm]

And you will hear in the first of the three videos how he took over the command of Shackleton's final expedition after his death in 1921.
I hope to put the other videos up later today.
All will be showing this afternoon on Captain Cook Birthplace Museum facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/CaptainCookBirthplaceMuseum

 

[Piggledick]

I've seen some of their stuff down in Dulwich College London, where Shackleton went to school. Damn shame that the bigger story isn't always told and that these local guys get obscured by the big names.

 

[Jonny_Rondos_Disco_pants]

Preston Park Museum has a section about him