Commander Mawson Henry Moyes - 1886-1981 (Antarctic Explorer and Naval Officer) military hat hat in box with associated epaulets, gold wire detail. A member of Mawson's Australasian Antarctic expedition of 1911 to 1914. He returned to the Antarctic on the 'Aurora' which sailed to the Ross Sea in December 1916 to rescue marooned members of Sir Ernest Shackleton's trans-Antarctic expedition. He made more voyages to the Antarctic and was awarded polar medals in silver and bronze