Fram Farrington

James Edward Butler Futtit Farrington (6 April 1908 – 4 October 2002) (originally called Butler; later known universally as Fram)[1] was a key member of Operation Tabarin, a secret wartime Antarctic expeditionary force, and the last surviving holder of the Polar Medal in Bronze, abolished after 1941.

Between 1937 and 1938, he served with future Operation Tabarin leader James Marr aboard HMS William Scoresby.

[6] After the outbreak of war, Farrington became an Air Ministry inspector based at Metropolitan-Vickers in Manchester, until he was summoned to London for secondment to Operation Tabarin,[7] under the overall command of Lt-Cdr James Marr.

Based on Deception Island, in the South Shetlands, Farrington had expected to spend the winter of 1945–46 at Hope Bay, but his sense of duty made him exchange places with a less experienced radio operator.

[8] Thus, technically, he never wintered on the Antarctic mainland, with the result that he was not awarded the Silver Polar Medal[9] On his return from the Antarctic in 1946, Farrington became a scientific officer with the Telecommunications Research Establishment at Malvern, moving two years later to the new electronics division at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell.