Outside St Barthlomew Church At Lyng,Somerset, UK, PART XXIX, Aug  2013
Channel: semw52
Date: 2013-09-29

In the churchyard at the chancel end lies the body of an Artic Explorer--George Edward Marston 1882-1940. This man was selected by Ernest Shackleton to be the expeditions Artist and dog handler between 1907-1909 and 1914-1916. Described as a big man and mentioned in the log books and journals kept by Shackleton---the crew sailed on the tall ship  'Endurance' to the Artic and survived and were rescued after a series of dangerous events which resulted in the crew spending many months marooned on the ice------He spent much of his life in Somerset and now lies buried in a peaceful churchyard close to an Orchard---a large tombstone for a big man, a handsome man as shown by photos..