BRAVERY OF CAPTAIN OATES
STORY OF SOUTH AFRICAN WAR. LONDON, February 12. The newspapers are giving prominence to a story concerning tho bravery of Captain Oates when serving in tho South African War. When hia patrol wc? surrounded, the Boer commander demanded its' surrender, but Oates replied : “Wo are hero to fight.” He was afterwards known as “No-Sur-render Oates.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8354, 14 February 1913, Page 8
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59BRAVERY OF CAPTAIN OATES New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8354, 14 February 1913, Page 8
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