1963 Winter Over Personnel of Wilkes Station

WILKES - Winter 1963
all IN on V2(62-63), all OUT on V2(63-64)
Officer in charge:  Richard Alan (Dick) Saxton (died 27 February 2011)
Medical Officer: Kenneth Edmund Hicks (Died October 2013)
Cook: Frederick James Ritchie (died 14 October 2015)
Senior Diesel Mechanic: Cyril Victor Morgan
Assistant Diesel Mechanic: Brian Geoffrey Wilkinson
Mechanic Driver: Fredrick Alexander Spence
Electrical Fitter: Raymond David Ash
Plumber: Peter Ivan Ormay
Supervising Technician (radio): Graeme James Currie
Radio Technician: John Francis McKenzie
Radio Operator-in-Charge: Ivan Neville Thomas
Radio operator: Bryan Paul Ryder (deceased 5th September 2010)
Radio Operator: Edmund Vincent Davern  (deceased 28 March 2017)
Radio Operator: Geoffrey Butterworth
Meteorologist: Roger P Mallory USA
Weather Observer: Thomas Kevin Gleeson
Weather Observer: Peter Richard Chapman
Technician (electronics): Charles W Webster USA
Physicist (ionosphere): Stephen William Grimsley
Physicist (ozone): Russel William Thompson USA
Physicist (cosray): Greenhill member of summer party who 
had to overwinter because Nella Dan V3 (62-63) could not 
get into Wilkes.
Geophysicist: Roy Whitworth what did he OUT on?
Glaciologist: Robin Alfred Simon
Seismologist: Malcolm Kirton 

The wintering party comprised 23 expeditioners. Seismic traverses were conducted in the autumn and spring. Glaciological, gravity, geomagnetic and meteorological observations were also made. The very rough terrain encountered resulted in severe metal fatigue in the vehicles.

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

Wilkes 1963 Winter Crew

Photo thanks to AAD Image Library.