Polar Exploration

Memorial: M2025

Memorial in Mount Wise, Devonport, Plymouth, England commemorating Captain Robert Falcon Scott RN d. 1912

Location

Mount Wise, Devonport, Plymouth, England

Transcript

[Front panel] 'IN MEMORY OF / CAPT R F SCOTT RN / DR E A WILSON / CAPT L E G OATES INS DRGS / LT H R BOWERS RIM / PETTY OFFICER E EVANS RN / WHO DIED ON THEIR RETURN / FROM THE SOUTH POLE / MARCH 1912. [Round top] 'FOR KNOWLEDGE','FOR KING', 'FOR COUNTRY', 'FOR BROTHERLY LOVE' [Middle] ' HAD WE LIVED I SHOULD HAVE HAD A TALE', 'TO TELL OF THE HARDIHOOD ENDURANCE AND', 'COURAGE OF MY COMPANIONS WHICH WOULD', 'HAVE STIRRED THE HEARTS OF EVERY ENGLISHMAN' [Base] 'TO STRIVE', 'TO SEEK', 'TO FIND, 'AND NOT TO YIELD'

Details

Description: Figure of Scott in Polar clothing crowned by victory in bronze at the top. This stands on a large stone plinth with bronze profile portraits of the polar party - Evans and Wilson on one side, Bowers and Oates on the other. Profile of Scott within a wreath on the front. On the back are carved three skiis, a wreath placed over them. Round the base are four bronze reliefs showing scenes from the expedition - manhauling, ponies, unloading stores and the cairn built over the bodies of the polar party.

Type: Monument
Materials: Bronze, portland stone
Date Erected: 10/8/1925
Artists: Albert Hemstock Hodge

People

Scott, Robert Falcon
Age: 43
Date of Death: 3/1912
Cause of Death: Starvation and exposure
Rank / Occupation: Captain RN
Organisation: Royal Navy

Extra

Notes: PRO WORK20-121. Commissioned by the Captain Scott Memorial fund. They were not permitted to erect it at a London site as originally intended.

Recorder: B. Tomlinson
Photographer: B. Tomlinson

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