Lawrence Oates
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Lawrence Edward Grace "Titus" Oates 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 freezing
Oates, c. 1911
Oates's primary task on the expedition was to attend to its horses.
Oates (far right) at the South Pole on 18 January 1912 as part of the Terra Nova Expedition. From left to right: Wilson, Bowers, Evans, Scott and Oates.
Monument to Oates, close to Holy Trinity Church, Meanwood, Leeds
Robert Falcon Scott
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Captain Robert Falcon Scott was a British naval officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition of 1901–1904 and the Terra Nova Expedition of 1910–1913.
Lawrence Oates
…served in Ireland, Egypt, and India. He was often referred to by the nickname "Titus Oates", after the historical figure. In 1910, he applied to join Robert Falcon Scott's expedition to the South Pole—the Terra Nova expedition—and was accepted mainly on the strength of his experience with horses and, to a lesser extent…
Scott in 1905
Scott as a naval cadet, 1882
HERE WAS BORN IN 1868 AND IN HIS BOYHOOD RESIDED ROBERT FALCON SCOTT, CAPTAIN, R.N., WHO DIED IN THE ANTARCTIC, MARCH 1912 AFTER REACHING THE SOUTH POLE.
Portrait of Scott by John Thomson, c. 1900