A HERO’S MOTHER.
It lias been recorded that on No- ( vember 26 Mrs Oates died at Gest- ( ingthorpe Hall. Essex, aged 83. She j was the mother of that “very gallant 1 gentleman,” Captain Lawrence Oates, ( the member of Scott’s Antarctic Expedition, who on his thirty-second ( birthday in 1912 stumbled out of the tent which he shared with Ins comrades to his death in the blinding j snow that they might have a greater ( chance of being saved. Every week , Mrs Oates, on whom, Captain Scott - said, her son’s last thoughts were centred, went to the village church at Gestingthorpe to polish the brass ( plaque commemorating his heroic deed. , She seldom left her home except for that‘weekly pilgrimage and to join t in the singing of Captain Oates’s fav- r ourite hymn, “Onward,- Christian . soldiers,” on the anniversary of his death. .
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/MS19380117.2.150.5
Bibliographic details
Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 41, 17 January 1938, Page 11
Word Count
141A HERO’S MOTHER. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 41, 17 January 1938, Page 11
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Manawatu Standard. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in