Tom Crean Retires from Royal Navy 1920

#OnThisDay 1920 Tom Crean, the Antarctic explorer, was retired from the Royal Navy on medical grounds, his vision began to deteriorate after he had a bad fall. Crean moved back to Annascaul and in 1927 opened a pub called “The South Pole Inn’.

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