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The Oates Museum at Gilbert White's House, Selborne, Hampshire focuses on the lives of Lawrence Oates and his uncle Frank. [ 26 ] The Royal Dragoon Guards , the successor to the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons, have a regimental day on 17 March, his birthday and St Patrick's Day, to remember Oates.
Captain Lawrence 'Titus' Oates was an officer in the regiment. [31] The Royal Dragoon Guards commemorates Oates each year on St Patrick's Day which was his birthday and the day he died on. This is the only case where the British Army commemorates an individual as opposed to a battle honour. [32]
The Wakes has been converted into a museum, known as Gilbert White's house. This museum also contains the Oates Museum and family archive. This comprises an exhibition relating to the life of Captain Lawrence Oates, who died on Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated expedition to Antarctica in the early 20th century, and Frank Oates, his uncle.
A Very Gallant Gentleman (1913), depicting Lawrence Oates. His painting of Antarctic explorer Lawrence Oates as he walked to his death, A Very Gallant Gentleman, hangs in the Cavalry Club in London. [9] [10] It was commissioned by officers of the Inniskilling Dragoons in 1913. [9] It was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1914. [11]
Oates' Sunday. Captain L E G Oates, of the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons, became a legend of self-sacrifice when, as a member of Scott's ill-fated Antarctic Expedition of 1912, he chose to sacrifice himself rather than impede the progress of his comrades. The annual commemoration of Oates' brave action takes place on the Sunday closest to St ...
Carl Court/Getty Images One of King Charles III’s guard horses bit a tourist posing for a photo in London. Footage taken outside of the Household Cavalry Museum on Monday, July 22, showed a ...
The second son of Edward Oates (1792–1865), of Meanwoodside, near Leeds, Yorkshire and Furnival's Inn, and his wife Susan (d. 1889), daughter of Edward Grace, J.P., Frank Oates was born at Meanwoodside in 1840. The Oates family were landed gentry, owning land around Leeds and Dewsbury since the 16th century. [1]
The museum’s history starts in 1998, when Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani opened a building to the public on his farm some 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of Qatari capital Doha.