Capt. L.E.G. Oates, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons

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Capt. L.E.G. Oates, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons

No 3. from Players cigarette cards, second series of 25, 'Polar Exploration'. Front: 'Players Cigarettes CAPTAIN OATES. Reverse: 'Capt. L.E.G. Oates, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons. He was in charge of the transport animals in Capt. Scott's expedition, also served with distinction in the South African War, being severely wounded. Oates was one of the men chosen to accompany Capt. Scott to the Pole. On the return journey disaster overtook the little band; the most frightful hardships were encountered and one by one the men broke down. Oates' hands and feet were badly frost bitten, and realising that he was becoming a drag on the party, this gallant English gentleman nobly walked to his death, hoping by this glorious sacrifice to save his three comrades beset with hardships.'

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Object Details

ID:	ZBA2283.3
Type:	Cigarette cards
Display location:	Not on display
Date made:	1916
People:	Oates, Lawrence Edward Grace
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Overall: 1 mm x 36 mm x 67 mm
Parts:	Set of cigarette cards commemorating polar exploration (Cigarette cards) Capt. Robert Falcon Scott, C.V.O., R.N (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.1) Commander E.R.G.R. Evans, C.B., R.N. (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.2) Capt. L.E.G. Oates, 6th Inniskilling Dragoons (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.3) Dr. Edward Adrian Wilson, Chief of the Scientific Staff (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.4) Staff-Paymaster Francis Drake, Secretary and Ship's Meteorologist, Taking Sea-temperatures (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.5) Lieutenant H.R. Bowers, Royal Indian Marine (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.6) The 'Terra Nova' arriving off Cape Evans, Feb. 1911 (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.7) Capt. L.E.G. Oates Exercising a Siberian Pony on the Sea-ice off Cape Evans (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.8) Demetri, the Russian Dog-driver, Keeping a Penguin from the Dogs (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.9) Unpacking Sledge and Setting up Camp (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.10) A Football Match at Winter Quarters (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.11) Midwinter day at Cape Evans in the Men's Quarters (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.12) Preparing one of the Motor Sledges for the Southern Journey (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.13) A Sledge Team on the King Edward VII, Plateau (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.14) A Sledge Party Crossing a Crevasse (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.15) Commander Evans' Sledge Flag (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.16) Dr. Atkinson's Supporting Party (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.17) Commander Evans (second in command) Taking Observations (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.18) Weddel Seals Asleep on the Sea-ice (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.19) An Adélie Penguin and his Mate (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.20) An Adélie Penguin with a Young One (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.21) The Norwegian Antarctic Expedition, 1910-12. Capt. Roald Amundsen, Discoverer of the South Pole (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.22) Lindström, the Cook (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.23) Amundsen at the South Pole (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.24) Oscar Wisting at the South Pole (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.25) An Adélie Penguin with a Young One (Cigarette cards) (ZBA2283.26)