Harry Dickason (Royal Navy sailor)

For other people with similar names, see Harry Dickason (disambiguation).

Harry Dickason (16 December 1884 – 3 December 1943)^[4] was an English seaman.

Harry Dickason
Born	(1884-12-16)16 December 1884 Clifton, Bristol, England
Died	3 December 1943(1943-12-03) (aged 58) Battersea, London, England
Branch	Royal Navy
Years of service	1902–1924
Rank	Chief petty officer
Wars	World War I
Awards	Polar Medal with clasp (1913) [1] Distinguished Service Medal (1915)[2] Bar to the Distinguished Service Medal (1919) [3]

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.^[5] Mount Dickason in Antarctica, at the head of the Boomerang Glacier, is named after him.^[6]