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Rifleman WILLIAM GEORGE BATES

Service Number: 300901
Regiment & Unit/Ship

London Regiment (Post Office Rifles)

8th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 January 1919

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

EAST HAM (ST. MARY MAGDALENE) CHURCHYARD

Memorial Plaque

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment formerly London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade)
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas Lawson Bates and Lilly Bates, of Elmbank, Crays Hill, Billericay, Essex. Wounded at Gommecourt July, 1916. Repatriated Prisoner of War. Born at Ramsden, Crays, Essex.
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