Eric Marshall

Eric Stewart Marshall, CBE (* May 29, 1879 in Hampstead, † February 26, 1963 on the Isle of Wight ) was a British physician and Arctic explorer. He is known by participating in the Nimrod Expedition ( 1907-1909 ).

Life

Training

Marshall studied theology at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge, before he went in 1899 to the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital in London, where in 1906 graduated as a surgeon. He received the Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians ( LRCP ) and the Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons ( MRCS ). Marshall was also a keen sportsman. At Cambridge, he belonged to the local rowing team in London and he was a successful rugby player.

Nimrod Expedition

Marshall was hired by Ernest Shackleton South Pole expedition for its own first as ship's surgeon and cartographer on the Nimrod. After landing at Cape Royds on 3 February 1908, he made ​​the first movies that have ever made in Antarctica. In March 1908 he participated in the successful first ascent of Mount Erebus. He also belonged to the four-member team, which departed on 29 October 1908 South Pole, however, due to poor equipment, lack of supplies and dwindling forces had to return prematurely. On the way back Marshall broke out shortly before the finish along with stomach cramps and was only saved by the use of his comrades. Shackleton named Marshall in honor of the Queen Alexandra Range a mountain range in the area of the Beardmore Glacier. (Marshall Mountains, 84 ° 40 ' S, 165 ° 20' O 84.666666666667165.33333333333 ) and the Antarctic Mount Marshall to him In addition, by Shackleton after Marshall's mother Alice Glacier (83 ° 58 ' S, 170 ° 0' O 83.966666666667170 ) was an ice stream, which joins the Beardmore Glacier, named. For his services he was awarded the silver medal of the Royal Geographical Society Polar.

Time after the Nimrod Expedition

After his return to England, Marshall took from 1909 to 1911 as a medical officer in the expedition of the British Ornithologists ' Union to New Guinea in part. In World War I he served with the rank of Captain as Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services ( DADMS ) in the Royal Army Medical Corps ( RAMC ) and was awarded the 1914 Star, the Military Cross and the Victory Medal. In addition, he was awarded for participation in the anti-Bolshevik intervention of the Entente in the Russian Civil War in 1918 the St. Stanislaus. Later he operated a farm in Kenya before he finally sat down on the Isle of Wight to rest.

Swell

  • Reefs Pittsburgh, Beau ( 2005). Nimrod: the Extraordinary Story of Shackleton 's First Expedition. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London. ISBN 0,747,572,534th
  • Bertrand, Kenneth J. and Alberts, Fred G. (1956). Geographic Names of Antartica. U.S. Govt. Print. Off. , Washington (English, available on the Internet Archive ).
  • Information at the site of the James Caird Society ( English)
  • Information on coolantarctica.com (English)
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