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Google News: One hundred years on and Captain Scott still polarises opinion
[Bath Chronicle] - On January 3, 1912, Scott decided that four men, not three as originally planned, should join him for the final push on the pole: Wilson, Captain Lawrence Oates, Lieutenant Henry Bowers, and Petty Officer Edgar Evans. But the day before they reached
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[Telegraph.co.uk] - On the return, Edgar Evans died on February 17; Lawrence Oates left the tent on March 16 so as not to hold up the others; the last three are presumed to have died on March Thomas Fairfax, born (died 1671), commander in the Parliamentarian
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www.standard.co.uk
[Evening Standard] - My mother, however, treasured a photograph of Captain Lawrence Oates, who died when she was 12, and she it was who, between Beatrix Potter's Tales and The Wind in the Willows, installed in me a respect for selfless heroism when she told me of his
Reunited at last, relics of Robert Scott and Lawrence Oates ...
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