Fresh Polar Medal appeal for Scots carpenter denied honour by Ernest Shackleton

Families of Scots who sailed on the stricken Endurance voyage to Antarctica have made a fresh appeal for the ship’s carpenter from Port Glasgow to be awarded a Polar Medal more than 100 years after the ship was lost to the ice.

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