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. 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.
