George Mulock

Captain George Francis Arthur Mulock, DSO, RN, FRGS was an AngloIrish Royal Navy officer, cartographer and polar explorer who participated in an expedition to the Antarctic regions the Discovery Expedition, 190104. After compiling the reports, logs and maps of the expedition, Mulock returned to fulltime service, seeing action on the beaches of Gallipoli and later as the most senior naval officer to be captured at Singapore in 1942.

George Francis Arthur Mulock was born in Fleetwood, Lancashire onFebruary 1882, the youngest child and only son of Railway Engineer George Phillips Mulock and Clara Frances Lugsdin. A fortnight after Georges birth his mother died of complications from childbirth. His father never fully recovered from this personal tragedy and threw himself into his work as resident engineer on the construction of Fleetwood docks.

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