7-858: Captain Percy M. Lemon (1898 – 23 October 1932) was a signal officer and British polar explorer who was awarded the Polar Medal . In 1914, while still a teenager, Lemon was interned in Germany. After being released, he was not allowed to fight in the First World War . Later he joined the British Army and ended up in the Royal Corps of Signals , where he reached the rank of captain. He met Gino Watkins in 1928 in Cambridge and in 1930 he
14-634: A hospital in Bath the following year on 23 October 1932. The Lemon Range in Greenland , was named after him. In October 1932, while in his deathbed, Captain Lemon was awarded the Polar Medal . Captain Captain is a title, an appellative for the commanding officer of a military unit; the supreme leader or highest rank officer of a navy ship, merchant ship, aeroplane, spacecraft, or other vessel; or
21-521: The commander of a port, fire or police department, election precinct, etc. In militaries, the captain is typically at the level of an officer commanding a company or battalion of infantry, a ship, or a battery of artillery, or another distinct unit. It can also be a rank of command in an air force. The term also may be used as an informal or honorary title for persons in similar commanding roles. The term "captain" derives from katepánō ( Ancient Greek : κατεπάνω , lit. ' [the one] placed at
28-476: The following year Lemon joined Watkins and Augustine Courtauld in a survey trip of the East Greenland seashore that explored as far north as the head of Kangerlussuaq Fjord . Then the three of them traveled southwards along the little explored King Frederick VI Coast on a gruesome open boat journey of 600 nautical miles (1,111 km). Braving harsh weather conditions, the three boats managed to go all
35-405: The top ' , or 'the topmost'), which was used as title for a senior Byzantine military rank and office. The word was Latinized as [capetanus or catepan] Error: {{Lang}}: invalid parameter: |labels= ( help ) , and its meaning seems to have merged with that of the late Latin capitaneus (which derives from the classical Latin word caput , meaning head). This hybridized term gave rise to
42-482: The way south and round Cape Farewell , reaching finally Nanortalik on the western side. Watkins, Courtauld and Percy Lemon had made the dangerous trip on two small whaleboats and a kayak, a reckless venture that they were very lucky to survive. Captain Lemon had become seriously ill after the arduous boat journey in Greenland and did not recover even after returning to England in the early fall of 1931. He died at
49-459: Was chosen to be the wireless operator and signal officer of the 1930-1931 British Arctic Air Route Expedition (BAARE) led by Watkins. Later in the expedition, he would be in charge of the administration of the headquarters in East Greenland. Captain Lemon would be the first member of the expedition who had an Inuit mistress and one of the first who would learn the Greenlandic language . In
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