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Corporal DAVID BATES

Service Number: 632751
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force

Date of Death

Died 17 July 1942

Buried or commemorated at

ISMAILIA WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

7. B. 4.

Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George William and Eva Bates, of Thornaby-on-Tees, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription SOME DAY MAYBE WE'LL UNDERSTAND WHY OUR DEAR ONE SLEEPS IN A FOREIGN LAND
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Buried or commemorated at

ISMAILIA WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 967
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