ANTARCTIC EXPLORER’S SAD END.
CABLE NEWS.
SUICIDE OF LIEUT. AIIMYTAGE. United Phess‘ association— Coeyuigiit (Received Maroli 14, 12.55 p.m.) MELBOURNE, March 13. Lieutenant Bertram Armytage, a member of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s exl>edition, co.mmitted suicide in a bedroom at the Melbourne Club. He was found lying, dressed in evening clothes and with his Antarctic medals on his breast, clutching a Colt’s revolver in his left hand and shot through the forehead. i\o cause is assigned for his act. [Lieut. Armytage was a member of Captain Scott’s expedition, as well as that of Sir E. Shackleton, and was regarded as a very promising officer.]
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2759, 14 March 1910, Page 5
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102ANTARCTIC EXPLORER’S SAD END. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2759, 14 March 1910, Page 5
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