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Private WILLIAM BATES

Service Number: 268596
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Army Ordnance Corps

Date of Death

Died 15 May 1943

Age 36 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BUCKNALL (ST. MARY) CHURCHYARD

Old part. Grave 337.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Peter and Jane Bates, of Bucknall, Stoke-on-Trent; husband of Edith Elizabeth Bates, of Birches Head, Stoke-on-Trent.
  • Personal Inscription IN LOVING MEMORY OF WILLIAM THE BELOVED HUSBAND OF EDITH BATES
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