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Private EDWARD RUSSELL BATES

Service Number: 6548
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Infantry, A.I.F.

28th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 01 June 1918

Buried or commemorated at

FRANVILLERS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

I. D. 4.

France

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  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of Frederick Nimrod Bates and Annie Maria Bates; husband of Ruth Bates, of Perth, Western Australia. Native of New Zealand.
  • Personal Inscription A NOBLE LIFE WILLINGLY SACRIFICED FOR THOSE HE LOVED SO DEAR
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Buried or commemorated at

FRANVILLERS COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Somme France
Number of casualties: 253
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