The story
Name: G BATES
Rank: Acting Lieutenant-Commander
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 837 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Glory
Date of death: 1947-03-07
Aircraft: Firefly l
Place of death: At sea
Circumstances: M.P.K.
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 6, Panel 7
Family details: Son of Arthur and Nellie Bates; husband of Joyce Enid Hamilton Bates of Shepperton, Middlesex
Rank: Acting Lieutenant-Commander
Official number: -
Role: Pilot
Service/attached: RN
Squadron: 837 Squadron
Ship/station: H.M.S. Glory
Date of death: 1947-03-07
Aircraft: Firefly l
Place of death: At sea
Circumstances: M.P.K.
Buried/commemorated: LEE-ON-SOLENT MEMORIAL - Hampshire
Commemoration details: Bay 6, Panel 7
Family details: Son of Arthur and Nellie Bates; husband of Joyce Enid Hamilton Bates of Shepperton, Middlesex
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