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Lawrence Edward Grace "Titus" Oates (17 March 1880 – 17 March 1912) was a British army officer, and later an Antarctic explorer, who died from hypothermia during the Terra Nova Expedition when he walked from his tent into a blizzard.
Mar 10, 2012 · With these words, Antarctic explorer Capt Lawrence Oates set out to meet his death 100 years ago, aged 31, and entered the history books. He was one of five men who died as they tried...
May 16, 2012 · Born in 1880 to a wealthy English family, Lawrence Oates attended Eton before serving as a junior officer in the Second Boer War . A gunshot wound in a skirmish that earned Oates the...
Born London in 1880 into a wealthy family, Oates attended Eton College for two years before attending an army "crammer" school and joining the army in 1898. He served in the Boer War with distinction, a gunshot wound to his left leg left it an inch shorter than the right and causing him to walk with a limp.
Captain Lawrence Oates, Antarctic explorer, was one of the five men in Scott’s fateful expedition to the South Pole. Suffering with gangrene and frostbite, in an attempt to save the others and in an act of supreme self sacrifice, he walked from the tent into a blizzard and certain death: “I am just going outside and may be some time.”
Captain Lawrence Oates is best remembered as the brave Antarctic hero who was chosen to be part of Captain Robert Scott’s team to undertake the epic journey of discovery to the South Pole 1911-12.
Lawrence Edward Grace "Titus" Oates or Captain Lawrence Oates (March 17, 1880 – March 17, 1912) was a British cavalry officer and an Antarctic explorer. He died during the Terra Nova Expedition of 1910–13.
May 11, 2018 · Oates, Lawrence Edward Grace (1880–1912) English explorer and soldier. He accompanied Robert Scott on the Antarctic expedition (1910–12). They reached the South Pole but on the return journey became weatherbound.
Jul 9, 2012 · How the famous last words of Antarctic explorer Capt Lawrence 'Titus' Oates still set an example for the soldiers of his regiment.
Capt Lawrence Edward Grace Oates (17 March 1880 ? 16 March 1912)| English cavalry officer with the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons and later an Antarctic explorer who died during the Terra Nova Expedition.
