Historical information

Richard W. Richards was Principal of the Ballarat School of Mines, and was a member of the Shackleton Antarctic Expedition. He was one of seven survivors of the Ross Sea Party who were stranded in Antarctical during Ernest Shackletyon's ill-fated 1914 expedition.

Dick Richards died in 1985.

Physical description

A Christmas card which included a photograph of Queen Elizabeth 11 and the silver jubilee Reunion Dinner of the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association at the Savoy Hotel, London.

Inscriptions & markings

Signed "With Love Dick and Joyce"