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I am just going outside : the tragedy of Captain Oates

    Exhaustively researched with new material, including major revelations about his previously unknown and secret private life, this is the first major biography of Lawrence Edward Grace "Titus" Oates who became a dashing cavalry officer and hero in the Boer War, a successful jockey, and part of Scott's doomed South Pole expedition, before becoming a national hero for sacrificing himself to save.

Captain Lawrence Oates: Antarctic tragedy - The History Press

    In March , in an act of self-sacrifice, Captain Lawrence Oates, a member of the Terra Nova Antarctic expedition, walked from his tent to face certain death.

What was Captain Oates’ great secret? | Great British Life

    A biography by Michael Smith, I am Just Going Outside: Captain Oates – Antarctic Tragedy, (Spellmount Publishers ) claimed that a year-old Oates fathered a daughter after raping an year-old Scots girl named Ettie McKendrick.
Michael Smith gave up a 30 year career as a leading business and political journalist to write the bestselling biography, An Unsung Hero: Tom Crean.
Oates was at centre stage of the Scott disaster and the expedition’s most unfortunate victim.
This is the first major biography of Lawrence Edward Grace "Titus" Oates who became a dashing cavalry officer and hero in the Boer War.

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  • A biography by Michael Smith, I am Just Going Outside: Captain Oates – Antarctic Tragedy, (Spellmount Publishers 2002) claimed that a 20-year-old Oates fathered a daughter after raping an 11-year-old Scots girl named Ettie McKendrick.

    • I Am Just Going Outside: Captain Oates - Antarctic Tragedy

  • Exhaustively researched with new material, including major revelations about his previously unknown and secret private life, this is the first major biography of Lawrence Edward Grace "Titus" Oates who became a dashing cavalry officer and hero in the Boer War, a successful jockey, and part of Scott's doomed South Pole expedition, before.

    • I am just going outside : the tragedy of Captain Oates

  • Lawrence Edward Grace Oates, born in , was from a family of explorers.

    • Captain Lawrence Oates: Antarctic tragedy - The History Press

      With I Am Just Going Outside, Michael Smith has greatly deepened our understanding of the main figures in the heroic age of Polar exploration and drawn what should stand as the most rounded picture we are likely to get of the short, unfulfilled life of Captain Lawrence Oates.

    I am just going outside: Captain Oates - Antarctic tragedy

  • life, this is the first major biography of Lawrence Edward Grace "Titus" Oates who became a dashing cavalry officer and hero in the Boer War, a successful.
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    Captains Oates - Antarctic Tragedy

    Lawrence “Titus” Oates was the epitome of the Victorian English gentleman – an aristocratic member of the Landed Gentry, a pupil at Eton and an officer in an elite cavalry regiment. He was immortalised on Scott’s tragic last expedition when he crawled to his death in a blizzard to save his comrades, uttering the most famous last words of all time -  “I am just going outside and may be some time”.

    But a different story lies beneath the surface.

    Oates was dominated by his formidable mother and rebelled against the stuffy social customs of the times. After 10 years in the cavalry, he became disenchanted with the army and paid money from his own pocket to join Scott’s attempt to reach the South Pole in 1912.

    But Oates was an outsider on the ill-fated expedition and clashed with Scott. His diaries and letters provide a starkly different and alternativ