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Private ERNEST BATES

Service Number: 19861
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Shropshire Light Infantry

9th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 30 October 1917

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

SOLFERINO FARM CEMETERY

I. D. 16.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment transf. to (49852) 84th Coy. Labour Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Alfred and Annie Bates, of 33, Gom's Mill Rd., Edensor, Longton, Staffs.
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Buried or commemorated at

SOLFERINO FARM CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 304
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