page_title: Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans
section_title: Honours and awards
hierarchical_section_title: Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans / Honours and awards
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo (by me, R. de SalisRodolph (talk) 11:44, 7 August 2014 (UTC)) of the Knight Commander of the Bath star, awarded to Cecil Fane de Salis (1859-1948) in 1935.
context_page_description: Admiral Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans, KCB, DSO, SGM was a Royal Navy officer and Antarctic explorer.
  Evans was seconded from the Navy to the Discovery expedition to Antarctica in 1901–1904, when he served on the crew of the relief ship, and afterwards began planning his own Antarctic expedition. However, he suspended this plan when offered the post of second-in-command on Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole in 1910–1913, as captain of the expedition ship Terra Nova. He accompanied Scott to within 150 miles of the Pole, but was sent back in command of the last supporting party. On the return he became seriously ill with scurvy and only narrowly survived.
  After the expedition he toured the country giving lectures, and returned to his naval duties as a commander in the summer of 1914. He spent the First World War as a destroyer captain, becoming famous as "Evans of the Broke" after the battle of Dover Strait in 1917.
context_section_description: Edward Evans received numerous honours and decorations for his Antarctic efforts, military service and for life-saving (given with London Gazette entries, where available):
  Companion of the Order of the Bath (LG 16 May 1913, p. 3507), (Knight Commander (1935))
  Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (LG 10 May 1917, p. 4481)
  Knight of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem (20 Dec 1937)
  Grande-Oficial of the Order of the Tower and Sword – Portugal (LG 17 Jan 1919, p. 887)
  Commandeur of the Order of the Crown – Belgium (LG 8 Apr 1921, p. 2797)
   
  Kommandør of the Royal Norwegian Order of St Olaf (1939)
  Officier of the Legion of Honour – France (LG 20 Jul 1917, p. 7427)
  Officier of the Order of Leopold – Belgium (LG 1 Jan 1917, p. 11)
  Cavaliere of the Military Order of Savoy – Italy (1905)
  Croix de Guerre – France (LG 22 Jun 1917, p. 6257)
  Navy Cross – United States (LG 16 Sep 1919, p. 11583)
  Médaille Civique – Belgium (LG 12 Dec 1919, p. 15432)
  Antarctic Polar Medal (Silver) (LG 25 Jul 1913, p. 5322)
  Sea Gallantry Medal (1921).
  He was made a Freeman of several municipalities: Calgary, Alberta, Canada (1914); Dover (1938); Chatham (1939); Kingston upon Thames (1945); the City of London (1945); and Chelsea (1945).
  Evans also received various awards: recognising the part he played at the Hong Moh disaster in the South China Sea: Médaille Civique of Belgium, 1st Class for saving life at sea (1919); Board of Trade Silver Medal for Saving Life at Sea (1921); Special Gold Medal from Lloyd's for saving life (1921); 
  
  for his part in expeditions: King Edward VII and King George V Medal
   for Antarctic Exploration: Silver Polar Medal (24 Jul 1913); Gold Medallist of Royal Hungarian and Royal Belgian Geographical Societies; RGS Livingstone Gold Medallist; Gold Medals from the Cities of Paris and Rouen, and from the Geographical Societies of Marseilles, Rouen, and Newcastle; honorary member of many Geographical Societies;
   and, in academia: LLD, Aberdeen Univ, (1936).
caption: KCB breast star
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