East Lancashire Regiment
Date of death: 26/08/1916 (aged 26)
BORN HULL 1890. SON OF FREDERICK JOSEPH BATEMAN (1855-1944) AND FANNY FISH (1856-1906), OF 8 MARY’S WALK, REDBOURNE STREET, HESSLE ROAD. HE HAD FIVE BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS.
HE MARRIED, ETHEL JACKSON (188-1942) ) ON 09/04/1914, AT ST PETERS CHURCH, DRYPOOL, HULL. THEY LIVED AT 105, ARUNDEL STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS), WITH THEIR DAUGHTER, GLADYS IRENE BATEMAN (1915-1992). HE WORKED AS A MARINE ENGINEER AND COAL TRIMMER.
HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS, ON 30/11/1914. FORMERLY, PRIVATE, 899, EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED AS PRIVATE, 27261, TO THE ACCRINGTON PALS. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 26/08/1916, AGED 26. COMMEMORATED ON THE LOOS MEMORIAL, FRANCE. HE LIVED AT 195 ARUNDLE STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
Many thanks to Pete Lee [mailto:pete@lemon.karoo.co.uk] who supplied the following information, on his Great Uncle, on 5.12.15.
Name: Walter Bateman
Father: Frederick Joseph Bateman (b 2 Jan 1855 – 1944)
Mother: Fanny Fish (b 19 Apr 1856 – 1905)
Living 1891 in 11 Davids Terrace Massey Street, Newington Hull
Living 1893 in 71 Rosamond Street, Hessle Road, Hull
Living 1895 in 6 Poplar Terrace Rosamond Street, Hessle Road
Living betw’ 1900 – 1904 in 6 Beech Grove Division Road, Hull
Living betw’ 1905 – 1910 in 146 Glasgow St. Hessle Road, Hull
Occupation Marine Engineer [steam trawlers] (betw 1912 -1914)
Living 1914 in 105 Arundel Street, Hull
Military Enlisted 23 Dec 1915 in Kingston upon Hull
Death 26 Aug 1916 in France
Marriages/Children
1. Ethel Jackson (1887-1942)
Marriage 9 Apr 1914 in St Peters Church Drypool Hull
Children Gladys Irene Bateman (b 3 Jun 1915)
