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
- 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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