Person    | Male 

John Downing

Categories: Exploring, Tragedy

John Downing

Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Erebus. See John Franklin.

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
John Downing

Commemorated ati

John Franklin statue

{On the front of the plinth:} To the great arctic navigator and his brave co...

Read More

Other Subjects

Thomas Honey

Thomas Honey

Role on the lost expedition: Officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.

Person, Exploring, Tragedy

1 memorial
Edgar Evans

Edgar Evans

Born Wales. Met Scott when both were serving in the Royal Navy. One of Scott's four companions who died with him, returning from the South Pole. Injured on the way to the pole he was the first to ...

Person, Exploring, Arctic & Antarctic, Wales

2 memorials
Mary Kingsley

Mary Kingsley

Traveller and ethnologist. Born Islington as Mary Henrietta Kingsley. Only after the death of her parents could she fulfil her aspirations of travel. Her first book, "Travels in West Africa", publi...

Person, Exploring, Africa

1 memorial
John Ratcliffe

John Ratcliffe

Mariner and colonist. His family name appears to have originally been Sicklemore, and why he chose to call himself Ratcliffe remains a riddle. He was captain of the 'Discovery', one of three ships ...

Person, Exploring, USA

1 memorial
Joseph René Bellot

Joseph René Bellot

Explorer.  Born Paris.   For his participation in the 1845 Anglo-French expedition to Madagascar Bellot received the Legion of Honour.  1851 he joined Captain Kennedy's expedition to find the Frank...

Person, Exploring, France

1 memorial