Capt Lawrence Edward Grace Oates

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DescriptionCapt 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. Oates afflicted with gangrene and frostbite walked from his tent into a blizzard. His death is seen as an act of self-sacrifice when aware that his ill health was compromising his three companions' chances of survival he chose certain death.DepictsLawrence OatesPhotographerHerbert PontingOriginalPrintNo. People1

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