Ernest Joyce
Royal Naval seaman and explorer (1875-1940) · United Kingdom · On the map · Historical Figures · Died at 65
Ernest Edward Mills Joyce AM was a Royal Naval seaman and explorer who participated in four Antarctic expeditions during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, in the early 20th century. He served under both Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton.
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Ernest Joyce (right), pictured with Frank Wild, left and Tom Crean, centre
These Greenwich buildings, now the National Maritime Museum, housed the Royal Hospital School for Navy Orphans during Joyce's childhood.
Ernest Shackleton, an early mentor for Ernest Joyce
Members of the Ross Sea Party, photographed in Australia before departure. Joyce is extreme left, back row.
Aurora, in New Zealand after the expedition, its temporary rudder visible
A depiction of Mackintosh and Spencer-Smith being drawn on the sledgeAwards
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As a member of the Ross Sea party in Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, Joyce earned an Albert Medal for his actions in bringing the stricken party to safety, after a traumatic journey on the Great Ice Barrier. He was awarded the Polar Medal with four bars, one of only two men to be so honoured, the other being his contemporary, Frank Wild.
