Mr. Hare, Clarence Howard
Date of birth
02 December 1880
Date of death
31 May 1967
Gender
Male
Place of birth
Place Of death
Biography
Born 1 December 1880 at Invercargill, New Zealand. Son of a banker in Christchurch, New Zealand. After schooling at East Christchurch School, he worked as a clerk in New Zealand and Fiji and, following a chance meeting with C.R. Ford, joined the Discovery Expedition as an Assistant Steward. He was a member of one of the earliest sledging parties, during which the seaman G. T. Vance was drowned and he himself had an almost miraculous escape from death. After losing the rest of the party, and his way, he slept out in a blizzard for thirty hours before finding his way back to the ship, completely unharmed. He was always deeply attached to music and, after a visit to England in Discovery at the end of the expedition, he became a piano tuner and repairer in New Zealand. Died on 31 May 1967.
Bronze Polar Medal: No clasp
Expedition: British Antarctic Expedition 1902-04*
* N. Poulsom and J. Myers, British Polar Exploration and Research: A Historical and Medallic Record with Biographies 1818-1999, London, Savannah, 2000, P.536.
Bronze Polar Medal: No clasp
Expedition: British Antarctic Expedition 1902-04*
* N. Poulsom and J. Myers, British Polar Exploration and Research: A Historical and Medallic Record with Biographies 1818-1999, London, Savannah, 2000, P.536.
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