Harry Dickason (Royal Navy sailor)

{{Short description|English polar explorer}}

{{Similar names|Harry Dickason (disambiguation)}}

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|name = Harry Dickason

|birth_date = {{birth date|1884|12|16|df=y}}

|birth_place = Clifton, Bristol, England

|death_date = {{nowr|{{death date and age|1943|12|03|1884|12|16|df=y}}}}

|death_place = Battersea, London, England

|branch_label = Branch

|branch = {{navy|UK|size=20px}}

|serviceyears_label = Years of service

|serviceyears = 1902–1924

|rank = Chief petty officer

|battles_label = Wars

|battles = World War I

|awards = {{plainlist|

• Polar Medal with clasp (1913) {{London Gazette |issue=28740 |date=25 July 1913 |pages=5322–5323}}
• Distinguished Service Medal (1915){{London Gazette |issue=29374|date=19 November 1915|pages=11559|supp=y}}
• Bar to the Distinguished Service Medal (1919)}}{{London Gazette |issue=31638|date=11 November 1919 |pages=13747|supp=y}}

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Harry Dickason (16 December 1884 – 3 December 1943){{cite web|url = https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/DE86FC78F19EADA4EEBBC283E4567A07/S0032247400041826a.pdf/obituaries.pdf|title = Obituaries|accessdate=12 November 2019}} was an English seaman.

Dickason was a survivor of Robert Falcon Scott's Antarctic Terra Nova expedition, and was one of six arctic explorers that were part of its Northern Party.{{cite web|first=Harry |last=Dickason |title=Harry Dickason - polar explorer |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/herefordandworcester/content/articles/2007/11/09/harry_dickason_feature.shtml |publisher=BBC |date=9 November 2007 |accessdate=12 November 2019 }} Mount Dickason in Antarctica, at the head of the Boomerang Glacier, is named after him.{{cite web|title=Mount Dickason|url=https://geographic.org/geographic_names/antname.php?uni=3843&fid=antgeo_106|accessdate=12 November 2019}}{{-}}