Legacy
The Royal Dragoon Guards have a regimental day to remember Oates
His Queen's South Africa Medal with bars and Polar Medal are held by the Museum of The Royal Dragoon Guards in York.
The Oates Museum at Gilbert White's House, Selborne, Hampshire focuses on the lives of Lawrence Oates and his uncle Frank.
Oates' reindeer-skin sleeping bag was recovered and is now displayed in the museum of the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge with other items from the expedition.
In 1913 his brother officers erected a memorial to him in the parish church of St Mary the Virgin in Gestingthorpe, Essex. The church is opposite his family home of Gestingthorpe Hall.
In May 1914 a memorial to Oates was placed in the cloister of the newly built School Library at Eton College, itself part of the Boer War Memorial Buildings. It was executed by Kathleen Scott, the widow of the expedition's leader.
The Lawrence Oates school in Meanwood, Leeds (closed 1992) was named after him.
On the 100th anniversary of his death, a blue plaque was unveiled in his honour at Meanwood Park, Leeds.
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