Captain Scott's Birthday Dinner, 6 June 1911 by Herbert George Ponting
This photograph records a rare moment of relaxation and celebration. Scott's diary records the event:
'June 6... my birthday, a fact I might easily have forgotten, but my kind people did not...we sat down to a sumptuous spread with our sledge banners hung about us...everyone was very festive and amiably appreciative.'
Robert Falcon Scott's polar party on the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition of 1910–1913 with Streatham's Henry Robertson "Birdie" Bowers marked with the arrow
©National Portrait Gallery, Creative Commons License
This photograph records a rare moment of relaxation and celebration. Scott's diary records the event:
'June 6... my birthday, a fact I might easily have forgotten, but my kind people did not...we sat down to a sumptuous spread with our sledge banners hung about us...everyone was very festive and amiably appreciative.'
Robert Falcon Scott's polar party on the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition of 1910–1913 with Streatham's Henry Robertson "Birdie" Bowers marked with the arrow
©National Portrait Gallery, Creative Commons License
Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman.
- Scott’s Journal 29/03/1912 🇬🇧
- Scott’s Journal 29/03/1912 🇬🇧
