In 1911 he joined Douglas Mawson’s Aurora expedition and was in charge of the western base on the Shackleton Ice Shelf.
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They settled in Germiston where in 1932 he worked supervising a stone-crushing machine at a Witwatersrand Gold Mine.
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He was cremated on 23 August 1939 at the Braamfontein Cemetery in Johannesburg.
He appeared in several other British television dramas, including Deacon Brodie (with Billy Connolly), Shackleton (as Frank Wild) with Kenneth Branagh, Omagh, Hornblower (with Ioan Gruffudd), The Street, Waking the Dead, Spooks, Silent Witness and New Tricks.
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Both Frank Wild and Ernest Joyce hold the joint record of four bars on their Polar Medal.
The writer Angie Butler discovered the ashes in the vault of Braamfontein Cemetery, Johannesburg, while researching her book The Quest For Frank Wild.