<P> The Oates Museum at Gilbert White's House, Selborne, Hampshire focuses on the lives of Lawrence Oates and his uncle Frank . </P> <P> The Royal Dragoon Guards, the successor to the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons, have a regimental day to remember Oates . His Queen's South Africa Medal with bars and Polar Medal are held by the regimental museum in York . The then Inniskilling Dragoon Guards was reportedly given £ 20,000 to help purchase the medals by Sir Jack Hayward . </P> <P> In 1913 his brother officers erected a brass memorial plaque to him in the parish church of St Mary the Virgin in Gestingthorpe, Essex, which his mother, Caroline, faithfully polished weekly for the rest of her life . The church is opposite his family home of Gestingthorpe Hall . </P> <P> 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 . </P>

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