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Cate Cadell
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Incredible news and a heartbreaking reminder we sorely need right now. The crew survived an impossible 800 mile lifeboat voyage in the pursuit of new human frontiers, only to return home & find war had broken out in Europe - almost immediately, several were killed in conflict
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Breaking News: The wreck of Endurance, Ernest Shackleton’s ship, has been found 106 years after it was crushed by pack ice during an Antarctic expedition. nyti.ms/3MAhYp9
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Cate Cadell
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Timothy McCarthy, in his late 20s at the time, enlisted in the Royal Naval Reserves immediately on his return - within three weeks of his miraculous survival he was killed when the ship he was serving as a deck gunner on was torpedoed.
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Cate Cadell
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Alfred Cheetam (left) returned and enlisted - was killed shortly before the armistice in 1918 in a German U boat attack. Some sources say he returned home to discover his teenaged son had been killed in service at sea while he was in the Antarctic.
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Cate Cadell
@catecadell
Any 🇦🇺 kid who did choir will remember this heart wrenching Paul Jarman song on the Endurance - “Two years, trapped in the Southern sea Far from our homeland Roaring waves and wailing wind They won't defeat us - Why, why did we have to come home to war?”
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Provided to YouTube by CDBabyShackleton · Young Voices of MelbourneJourneys℗ 2004 Young Voices of MelbourneReleased on: 2004-01-01Auto-generated by YouTube.
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