 He travelled to the Antarctic again, this time under the command of Ernest Shackleton, on the "Nimrod" expedition where he was third officer and boatswain.He returned once more with the "Terra Nova" expedition, Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole.He served as boatswain aboard the "Terra Nova" and although he volunteered for the search party that was to look for Scott's party he was turned down as he was a family man.