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e expect to close the gap tomorrow,” he reads from the records.
David explains that the news reached his family a month or so later. Dennis’s body was eventually recovered from the crevasse, after a second tragic operation to rescue him. He was buried on the Antarctic island and his family received a handwritten letter from the authorities.
David believes that Dennis’s passing aged 25 was formative in his family’s history.
“It was absolutely tragic,” he says. “As a result, my mother was a completely different woman. They both doted on him.”
“It was the words she left unsaid that I regret,” he says, adding that they never spoke about the tragedy until years later.
In Adelaide, his sister Valerie Bond, 78, told the BBC about her brother who she remembers as “a bit of a character” who used to make her wooden toys when she was little.
“He was a fun-loving spirit,” she says.
She holds onto her memories and the Christmas cards he sent – including one on which he joked about being stranded in Antarctica for the festive season.
David says he wrote a letter to the British Antarctic Survey about a visit to the house Dennis shared with him and the RAF.
He shared intimate details about Dennis’s early death, adding: “He died chasing a dog down a crevasse. It was, I can assure you, one of the most tragic accidents that could ever happen to anyone.”
David smiles with pride when recounting his brother’s story.
Reflecting on the 196 years of the British Antarctic Survey and the role his brother played in it, he says: “I think Dennis deserves to be remembered, he deserves to be known for what he did.
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