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Sapper TOM BATES

Service Number: 1880576
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

245 Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 20 July 1942

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

RANCHI WAR CEMETERY

5. B. 11.

India

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Walter and Eveline Bates, of Bradford, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription "IN HEARTS AT PEACE, UNDER AN ENGLISH HEAVEN" LOVING MOTHER, MARY AND HAROLD
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Buried or commemorated at

RANCHI WAR CEMETERY
India
Number of casualties: 707
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