A Very Gallant Gentleman

A Very Gallant Gentleman tells the story of Captain Lawrence Oates, a British Army Officer, and explorer in the Terra Nova expedition led by Sir Robert Falcon Scott. Oates, beset with hardships on an expedition gone wrong, walked off into the freezing Antarctic night, in an attempt to give his life to save the rest of his party. He knew he had become a burden on his friends owing to his frostbite and the chances of their survival would improve without him. The story is a fictionalized account of his final night and strives to explore what drove the man in his final moments.
"Hereabouts died a very gallant gentleman, Captain L. E. G. Oates, of the Inniskilling Dragoons. In March 1912, returning from the Pole, he walked willingly to his death in a blizzard, to try and save his comrades, beset by hardships"- a cross erected by the search party that was sent to find the missing explorers. Oates' body was never found.