C. S. Wright
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Sir Charles Seymour Wright, KCB, OBE, MC, MA (who went by C. S. "Silas" Wright) (1887 – 1 November 1975) was a Canadian member of Robert Falcon Scott's antarctic expedition of 1911-1913, the Terra Nova Expedition.
Born in Toronto, Wright, 25 years old at the time, was the member of the search party to find the tent containing the bodies of Scott, Edward Wilson, and Henry Robertson Bowers, who perished on their return trek from the South Pole.
Silas as knighted in 1946.
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