In the 19th century the Manor of Over Hall in Gestingthorpe was the home of the Oates family, whose most famous son, Captain Lawrence Oates, was born in Putney, London on 16 March 1880.
Bernacchi wrote a number of books on the Antarctic including a biography of Lawrence Oates called A Very Gallant Gentleman published in 1933 and Saga of the Discovery in 1938.
the "heroic" "self-inflicted death" of a soldier who throws himself on a hand grenade to save his mates, or that of the Antarctic explorer Captain Lawrence Oates ("I am just going outside and may be some time"); or
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.
D. H. Lawrence | Lawrence Ferlinghetti | Joyce Carol Oates | Lawrence, Kansas | Lawrence | Hall & Oates | Martin Lawrence | Saint Lawrence River | Lawrence, Massachusetts | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Lawrence Ritter | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | T. E. Lawrence | Steve Lawrence | Lawrence Summers | Sarah Lawrence College | Lawrence Welk | Titus Oates | Lawrence Taylor | Gertrude Lawrence | Lawrence v. Texas | The Lawrence Welk Show | Lawrence Weiner | Lawrence Kasdan | Jacob Lawrence | Tracy Lawrence | Thomas Lawrence | Lawrence University | Lawrence Hayward | Lawrence of Rome |