Above right: 2. Captain Alexander Bowers (Bower s father), photographed in Greenock, date unknown. Courtesy of and the owners

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1 Above left: 1. Emily Bowers (Bower s mother) shortly following her wedding in 1877, Singapore. Image licensed by and Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) Above right: 2. Captain Alexander Bowers (Bower s father), photographed in Greenock, date unknown. Courtesy of and the owners 3. Bowers as a toddler, Greenock. Image licensed by and SPRI

2 4. Portrait of the Bowers family (clockwise from left): Edie, May (standing), Emily, Henry (seated, wearing kilt and sporran). Image licensed by and SPRI 5. Bowers as a schoolboy, London (possibly Sidcup). Image licensed by and SPRI 6. Bowers (right, seated) receiving instruction on HMS Worcester (detail). Original by unknown photographer, photograph by Anne Strathie, courtesy of and Spink,

3 7. Loch Torridon in full sail, off Melbourne Heads. Postcard from collection of and State Library of Victoria, Australia 8. Bowers in the countryside near Auckland, January 1901 (when serving on Loch Torridon). Photograph: V.O. Banneho, 3rd Mate. Image licensed by and SPRI 9. Bowers in RIM dress uniform, c (detail). Original photographer unknown. The photograph was later used for a postcard titled Henry Bowers, Hero of the Antarctic. Photograph by Anne Strathie, courtesy of and Spink,

4 10. Letter of 8 October 1908 from Bowers to sister May from the Irrawaddy (showing the sideways writing he regularly used). private 11. Group photograph at dockside SY Terra Nova, June 1910, including Bowers (fourth from right) and (left to right, the only women) May, Emily and Edie Bowers. Photograph: London Stereoscopic Company. Image licensed by and SPRI

5 12. Bowers and Edward Wilson indulge in horseplay on board the Terra Nova; Silas Wright looks on. Photograph: Frank Debenham. Image licensed by and SPRI 13. Bowers in RIM whites ; caricature by Dennis Lillie (in the Terra Nova South Polar Times, 1911). Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum 14. Bowers in his cool weather gear, including his favourite green felt hat; caricature by Dennis Lillie (in the Terra Nova South Polar Times, 1911). Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum

6 15. Bowers (presumed) aboard the Terra Nova, Lyttelton, Photographer unknown; Kinsey collection Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand 16. The Tenements at the Cape Evans hut. Bowers stands at his improvised desk second from the left; Cherry-Garrard is below him. Oates is in the middle bunk, and Meares (above) and Atkinson (below) are in the right-hand bunk. Photograph: Herbert Ponting; Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth, Australia

7 17. Bowers and others trying to rescue some of the ponies, sledges and equipment from the sea-ice following the depot journey, April Painting: Edward Wilson; from the Terra Nova s South Polar Times private 18. Sledge-hauling on ski, March Watercolour by Edward Wilson. This shows five men pulling a sledge rather than the more usual four. Image from Wilson 1914 print series private

8 19. Bowers and Wilson taking readings on the ramp at B station ( Bertram ) during winter Photograph (by flashlight): Herbert Ponting; private 20. Watercolour by Edward Wilson showing Bowers on the ramp in winter From Scott s Last Expedition, Vol. I, facing p. 306 private

9 22. Midwinter Day tree, 22 June Tree made by Bowers, decorated with feathers, gifts and crackers. Photograph: Herbert Ponting; image licensed by and SPRI 21. Menu prepared by Edward Wilson for Midwinter Day dinner, 22 June 1911, showing the hut and Mount Erebus, and signed by expedition officers and scientists ( H.R. Bowers on left). Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum

10 23. Wilson, Bowers and Cherry-Garrard at the Cape Evans hut after the Cape Crozier journey, August Photograph: Herbert Ponting; from Scott s Last Expedition, Vol. II, facing p. 72 private 24. Bowers with a laden sledge. Photograph: Herbert Ponting; Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth, Australia

11 25. Bowers with a camera, possibly at Cape Evans, October 1911 (when Ponting gave photography lessons). Photograph: Tryggve Gran (developed by Debenham) Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand 26. On the march: Bowers ( HRB and B ), Cherry-Garrard ( ACG ), Oates ( TO ), Scott ( RFS ), Keohane ( PK ) and unnamed ponies. Drawing by Edward Wilson; from Scott s Last Expedition, Vol. I, facing p. 540 private

12 27. Bowers sledge-party and others on the Beardmore Glacier, December Front, pulling (left to right): Cherry-Garrard, Bowers, Keohane, Crean; pushing: Edward Wilson and another (hidden). Photograph: Robert F. Scott Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth, Australia 28. Members of the South Pole party on the plateau, near Three Degree depot. Left to right: Oates, Evans, Scott, Wilson. Photograph: Henry R. Bowers Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth, Australia

13 29. Members of the South Pole party at Roald Amundsen s tent, 18 January Left to right: Scott, Oates, Wilson, Evans. Photograph: Henry R. Bowers Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth, Australia 30. At the South Pole, 18 January Left to right: Oates, Bowers (pulling the string to the camera with his bare-fingered right hand), Scott, Wilson, Evans. Photograph: Henry R. Bowers Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth, Australia

14 32. Royal Indian Marine memorial to Bowers, originally at St Ninian s church, Port Bannatyne, Bute, now at Bute Museum, Rothesay (an identical copy of the memorial is in Bombay Cathedral). Photograph and courtesy of Bute Museum 31. HMS Worcester memorial to Bowers, originally mounted on the mast of the ship, now at SPRI, Cambridge. Photograph by Anne Strathie; by permission and courtesy of SPRI

15 35 A John Player s cigarette card depicting Bowers (a confirmed non-smoker). and courtesy of Dr Max Jones 33 & 34. Bowers medals (obverse and reverse), left to right: Royal Geographical Society Memorial Medal (Captain R.F. Scott s expedition ); Polar Medal (George V, clasp Antarctic ); Italian Royal Geographical Society (Scott expedition 1913). private

16 36. This sledge-flag with the Bowers crest was sent to the Antarctic by Bowers family in autumn It remained unused as it did not reach Cape Evans until after the departure of the southern party. This flag was given by May Bowers to Waitaki High School for Boys, Oamaru, New Zealand, where it still hangs. Photograph and courtesy of Paul Baker 37. The Birdie Bowers skiff (built by John Glover for the Royal West of Scotland Amateur Boat Club) at the Viking Festival 2011; crew, from bow: Yvonne Christie, Lorna McCartney, Charlie Baxter (age 7), John Glover, Campbell McCall, Ian Clark. Photograph and courtesy of Jim Ford