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| James McIlroy | He had been both a practicing surgeon in Japan, Malaysia, and Egypt, and a ship's doctor aboard passenger ships in the East Indies. He was appointed kennel commander and sledge-team driver. |
| Robert Clark | He could usually be found out for a bit of exercise on his skis, skinning penguins for scientific study, or using his dredging nets to bring up biological specimens from the deep Antarctic seas. |
| Sir Ernest Shackleton | An Irish-born polar expedition veteran, he approached to within 745 miles of the South Pole with Robert Scott on the 1901 Discovery expedition, then pressed to within 97 miles on his own Nimrod expedition of 1908. |
| Sir Daniel Gooch | He helped tend to the sledge dogs |
| George Marston | Graduate of a London art school; he was a friend of Shackleton's two sisters, who prodded him to put his name in for expedition artist. He was said to have the best voice in the ship's company. |
| Frank Wild | He had the happy knack of saying nothing and yet getting people to do things just as he requires them. |
| Lionel Greenstreet | He joined Shackleton's expedition just 24 hours before it left Plymouth, England, when the original first officer quit to lend his services to the war effort. |
| Louis Rickinson | He had an aversion for the cold and was deemed a solid engineer who had a knack with internal combustion engines. |
| Huberht Hudson | He was a mate in the merchant service when he signed on and turned out to be the expedition's most accomplished penguin-catcher. |
| James Wordie | One of the most popular members of the expedition. Before the journey, he advanced Shackleton’s some of his own funds to help buy fuel for the ship. |
| Frank Worsley | He navigated Shackleton's lifeboat the James Caird across 800 miles of dangerous seas to South Georgia Island. |
| Walter How | The expedition's official artist. |
| Alfred E. Cheetham | An old Antarctic hand with three trips into the Deep South under his belt, including a stint as third officer on Shackleton's Nimrod expedition. |
| Frank Hurley | . Nicknamed "the Prince" on the expedition for his susceptibility to flattery, he quickly gained a reputation for stopping at nothing to secure a memorable photograph. |
| John Vincent | A former navy sailor and trawlerhand, he was the strongest man aboard, and he used his brawniness at times in a bullying way. |
| Perce Blackborow | He slipped aboard the Endurance and hid in a locker until the ship was at sea. In an operation on Elephant Island, he had all the toes on his left foot removed due to severe frostbite. |
| Alexander Macklin | Assigned him a team of sledge dogs to drive, and also the duty of caring for the ship's canines. |
| Tom Crean | At 16, he joined the Royal Navy and eventually joined Robert Scott on both the Discovery and Terra Nova expeditions, receiving the Albert Medal for saving two companions during the latter journey. |
| William Bakewell | The only American on the expedition |
| Charles Green | With Blackborow's help, he worked in the galley - both aboard ship and on the ice -- from early morning till evening, preparing meals for 28 mouths. |
