The ‘Old Arctics’: notices of Franklin Search expedition veterans in the British press, 1876–1934
Journal: Polar Record
Year: 2015

ABSTRACT The lives of the commanders and officers associated with the British naval searches for the lost John Franklin northwest passage expedition in the 1850s are well-known through their own writings or those of later biographers. The post-Arctic careers of ordinary crew members, on the other hand, are barely known at all. Following digital searches of nineteenth and early-twentieth century British newspapers, we have compiled a list of some notices, obituaries, and reminiscences that shed l