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Serjeant RUPERT GEORGE BATES

Service Number: 5951297
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment

1st Bn. The Hertfordshire Regt.

Date of Death

Died 27 August 1944

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY

V. B. 10.

Italy

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Henry Alexander Bates and Victoria Marie Bates, of High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.
  • Personal Inscription "HE HAS OUTSOARED THE SHADOW OF OUR NIGHT, ENVY AND CALUMNY, HATE AND PAIN".
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Buried or commemorated at

FLORENCE WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 1638
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