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Personnel

1964 Winter Over Personnel of Wilkes Station

WILKES - Winter 1964
all IN on V2(63-64), all OUT on V3(63-64)
Officer in charge: Raymond A O'Leary
Medical Officer: Lyndon George Murray
Cook: Frederick Cross
Senior Diesel Mechanic: Geoffrey Charles Hulcombe
Assistant Diesel Mechanic: Ross G Hall
Mechanic-Driver: Henry S Jones
Electrical Fitter: M John Freeman
Supervising Technician(radio): Thomas Ellis
Radio Technician: Neil Henry Simmons
Radio Operator-in-Charge: John Henry O'Shea
Radio Operator: Neville K Woods
Radio Operator: David Rogers
Radio Operator: Brian E Fogarty
Weather Observer-in-Charge: Leon Neville Eugene
Jennings-Fox
Weather Observer: Aristide M Bonnici (died 6 February 2015)
Weather Observer: Denis G Brophy
Weather Observer(radio): Geoffrey O Williams
Senior Technician(electronics): Gordon Alden Smith
Physicist(ionosphere): John R Pollard
Physicist(upper atmosphere and cosmic ray): Michael
Bowthorpe
Geophysicist: Graeme R Small
Glaciologist: Peter J Morgan
Seismologist: Roy Whitworth
Surveyor: Keith R Budnick

The wintering party comprised 24 expeditioners. In March, eight of the party, using mechanised transport, conducted glaciological and geophysical research at an ice dome 110 km south-east of the station. In November another party made observations in the Vanderford Glacier area on the route to Cape Folger.

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

Wilkes 1964 Winter Crew

Wilkes 1964 Group Photo

Photo thanks to AAD Image Library.