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Driver WILLIAM JOSEPH BATES

Service Number: 210787
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Army Service Corps

Date of Death

Died 17 January 1941

Age 31 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ISMAILIA WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

1. D. 5.

Egypt

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Robert and Annie Bates, husband of Dorothy Evelyn Bates, of Blindley Heath, Surrey.
  • Personal Inscription THO' LOST TO SIGHT TO MEMORY EVER DEAR. THE ONE WE LOVED AND CANNOT FORGET
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Buried or commemorated at

ISMAILIA WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Egypt
Number of casualties: 967
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