Frank Worsley

Frank Arthur Worsley DSO OBE RD was a New Zealand sailor and explorer who served on Ernest Shackletons Imperial TransAntarctic Expedition of 19141916, as captain of the Endurance. He also served in the Royal Navy Reserve during the First World War.

Frank Arthur Worsley was born onFebruary 1872 in Akaroa, New Zealand, one of three children of a farmer, Henry Worsley, and his wife Georgiana. His grandfather, Henry Francis Worsley , had migrated from Rugby in England aboard the Cornwall to Lyttelton, where he arrived with his large family in December 1851. The family lived in Grehan Valley, high up above Akaroa. Worsleys mother died while he was a toddler. He was sent to school in Akaroa but when his father moved his family to take up work clearing bush from land at Peraki, he was homeschooled for a time. From age 10, he helped with clearing land for sheep pasture and growing cocksfoot. When Frank was 11, his older brother, Harry, left to join the New Zealand Shipping Company as an apprentice and at about the same time, his father moved his family, which was now just Frank and his 13yearold sister, to Christchurch. Frank attended Fendalton School and marked his final year of schooling by being made head boy.

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