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Recent Royal Navy award: The Edward Leicester Atkinson prize

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2018

Michael C. Tarver
Michael C. Tarver*
Affiliation:
Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London
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E-mail: mikectarver@gmail.com
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Abstract

More than 100 years have now passed since Scott’s Terra Nova expedition to the Antarctic, which was quickly followed by the First World War. Out of the events of those times emerges the name of Edward Leicester Atkinson, the Royal Navy Surgeon and Antarctic explorer who was a member of the scientific staff of Scott’s expedition, and who went on to serve in the First World War. In his honour, the Edward Leicester Atkinson Prize will be awarded annually to a Royal Navy Medical Officer who displays the values of leadership and moral courage during the New Entry Medical Officer course, either at Britannia Royal Naval College or the Institute of Naval Medicine.

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RoyalNavyAward
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Commentary
Information
Polar Record , Volume 54 , Issue 3 , May 2018 , pp. 241 - 242
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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References

Tarver, M.C. (2015). The Man Who Found Captain Scott. Antarctic Explorer and War Hero: Surgeon Captain Edward Leicester Atkinson (1881–1929) DSO AM MRCS LRCP Royal Navy. Brixham: Pendragon Maritime Publications.Google Scholar