Percival Gray

Australian naval officer

Percival Gray (5 January 1889 – November 1944) was an Australian naval officer. During his early career he served on the Worcester and the Archibald Russell, and then joined the New Zealand Shipping Company.

From 1909 to 1911, he worked for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. During this time he attained his first officer's certificate.^[1]

From 1911 to 1914, during the Australasian Antarctic expedition, he served as second and navigating officer aboard the SY Aurora, under John King Davis, for all five cruises.^[2]

Cape Gray, in King George V Land in Antarctica, was named after him by Sir Douglas Mawson.

References

^ Mawson, Douglas (1996) [1915], The home of the blizzard: the story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911–1914, Kent Town, South Australia: Wakefield Press, p. 8, ISBN 978-1-86254-377-5
^ Davis, John King (1919), With the "Aurora" in the Antarctic, 1911–1914, London: A. Melrose, p. 170

Australasian Antarctic Expedition

Personnel

Main Base party	Bob Bage Frank Bickerton John Close Percy Correll Walter Hannam Alfred Hodgeman John Hunter Frank Hurley Sidney Jeffryes Charles Laseron Cecil Madigan Douglas Mawson Archibald McLean Xavier Mertz Herbert Murphy Belgrave Ninnis Frank Stillwell Eric Webb Leslie Whetter
Western Base party	Charles Dovers Charles Harrisson Charles Hoadley Sydney Jones Alexander Kennedy Morton Moyes Andrew Watson Frank Wild
Macquarie Island party	George Ainsworth Leslie Blake Harold Hamilton Charles Sandell Arthur Sawyer
SY Aurora officers	John H. Blair John King Davis Frank D. Fletcher F. J. Gillies Percival Gray Clarence Petersen de la Motte Norman Toutcher
Other	Hugh Evelyn Watkins