1962 Winter Over Personnel of Wilkes Station

WILKES - Winter 1962
all IN on V2(61-62)
Officer in charge:  Robert Baden Thomson
Medical Officer: Zdenek (Frank) Soucek
Cook: Ephraim David Field
Senior Diesel Mechanic: Neville Joseph (Gringo) Collins
Assistant Diesel Mechanic: Thomas Arthur Edwards
Mechanic Driver: Desmond J Evans
Electrical Fitter: Keith George Fletcher
Plumber: William John Cartledge
Supervising Technician (radio): Christopher Anthony JohnGorman
Radio Operator: John Henry O'Shea
Radio Operator: Maxime Jean Simon
Radio Operator: Ronald Norman Reu
Radio Operator: James John Calman
Meteorologist: Burton D Goldenberg
Meteorologist and Physicist: Steven D Bone
Weather Observer: Leon Neville Eugene Jennings-Fox
Weather Observer: Eric L Clague
Weather Technician: Danny L Foster (died October 14 2014)
Engineer (electronics): Marvin G Haunn
Physicist (IPSO): Donald Lynton Seedsman
Geophysicist: Robert Underwood
Geophysicist: Donald J(Bwana) Walker - died 4 June 2011
Glaciologist: Alastair Cameron Battye

The station, staffed by 19 Australians and four Americans, continued a joint scientific program. New scientific equipment was installed including a cosmic ray neutron monitor and a laboratory for cosmic ray and glaciological research. The outstanding achievement of the year was a six-man 2850 km traverse from Wilkes to Vostok and return led by R B (Bob) Thomson. A program of glaciological and geophysical investigations extended the knowledge of the ice sheet of this previously unexplored region.

Reference "Antarctic Events Database" data of the Australian Antarctic Data Center

Wilkes 1962 Winter Crew

Photo thanks to AAD Image Library.