William Lashly stood at a motorcycle league during the Terra Nova expedition (November 1911).
William Lashly (Hambledon, December 25, 1867 - June 12, 1940) was an English sailor, pole investigator and member of the Royal Navy. He participated in both the Discovery Expedition and the Terra Nova Expedition.
Lashly grew up near Portsmouth. When he boarded the RRS Discovery in 1901, he was a 33-year-old stoker at the Royal Navy. In 1903, Lashly was one of the members of Robert Falcon Scotts team who explored Victorialand. Seven years later, Lashly also joined the Terra Nova expedition after having worked for a time as a scientist at the Royal Naval College of Wight.
During the Terra Nova expedition, Lashly initially took charge of a few motor leases. Until January 4, 1912, Lashly accompanied along with admiral Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans and Thomas Crean Scott on his journey to the South Pole, after which Lashly was returned with Evans and Crean. On the return trip, Evans suffered from tearbirth and could not walk further on February 11, after which Lashly and Crean bound him on the sled and pulled on. When Crean sought help later in Hut Point Peninsula, Lashly remained in the set tent to take care of Evans. Both Lahly and Crean later got the Albert Medal to save Evan's life. Pieces from Lashly's diaries of this time - in which he describes his misery with the motorslee and describes his retreat together with Evans - are later included in The Worst Journey in the World of Apsley Cherry-Garrard.
After his return from the Antarctic area, Lashly resigned from the Royal Navy. However, during the First World War he did still work on the HMS Irresisitible and later on the HMS Amethyst. Later he worked as a customs officer in Cardiff. After his retirement in 1932, Lashly returned to his hometown of Hambledon.
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