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Ernest Joyce
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Ernest Joyce
Ernest Edward Mills Joyce
AM
(ca. 1875 – 2 May 1940) was a
Royal Naval
seaman and explorer who participated in four
Antarctic
expeditions during the
Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration
, early in the early 20th century. He served under both
Robert Falcon Scott
and
Ernest Shackleton
. 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
.
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