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Mar 17, 1880 Putney, England, United Kingdom Died on 17 Mar 1912 (aged 32)
British explorer
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About Lawrence Oates
- Captain Lawrence Edward Grace "Titus" Oates (17 March 1880 – 17 March 1912) was a British army officer, 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.
