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- Birth nameLawrence Edward Grace Oates
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- Titus
- Lawrence E.G. Oates was born on March 17, 1880 in Putney, London, England, UK. He died on March 17, 1912 in Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica.
- British Antarctic explorer.
- Froze to death while trying to aide fellow explorers on the 1912 Terra Nova expedition to Antarctica. His body was never recovered.
- Veteran of the Second Boer War in South Africa. While serving in the conflict in March 1901 he sustained a gun shot wound to the thigh which caused permanent damage and left him with a pronounced limp for the rest of his life.
- Saw service in India, 1909.
- His uncle was Frank Oates, a naturalist and African explorer.
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