One hundred years ago...............

On November 12, 1912 an Antarctic search party led by the expedition's surgeon E. L. Atkinson, discovered its objective - the tent of Captain Robert Scott and his two companions half buried in the snow. Inside, they found the body of Captain Scott wedged between those of his fellow explorers, the flaps of his sleeping bag thrown back, and his coat open. His companions, Lieut. Henry Bowers and Dr. Edward Wilson, lay covered in their sleeping bags as if dozing. They had been dead for eight months. They were the last members of a five-man team returning to their home base from the Pole.
Atkinson's sledging flag now hangs in the Great Hall of Forest School in Northeast London, where Atkinson was educated and where my son James is a year 7 pupil.
Hearts of Oak indeed.