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Bert B Bates, Private served with South Staffordshire Regiment, 1/6th Bn..
Service number: '4923643'. Date of death: 1944-08-07. Age: 31. Country: France.
Buried at Bayeux War Cemetery, grave reference XXII. E. 1..
SON OF SAMUEL ROLAND AND ELLEN BATES; HUSBAND OF SADIE BATES, OF OLD PARK, BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND.
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