Walter George Richards, who died in Stanley, Falkland Islands, in October 2002 aged 73, served as a ‘handyman’ with the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey from 1948 to 1950. He was long known by his nickname ‘Bill.’

André Roch, the great Swiss mountaineer, Alpine guide, and ski instructor, died in Geneva on 19 November 2002, aged 96.

James Edward Butler Futtit Farrington, known to friends and expedition colleagues by his nickname ‘Fram,’ died at Lisburn, Co. Antrim, on 4 October 2002, aged 94. He was one of a handful of surviving holders of the Polar Medal in Bronze, abolished after 1941. He should also have received the Polar Medal in Silver, but the medal was denied him during his lifetime through a technicality; it has, however, since been awarded to him after his death.

Frederick William Sherrell, geologist and engineer, who participated in both Arctic fieldwork and the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition, died of complications from emphysema at Tavistock on 5 August 2001.