BORN WEST HARTLEPOOL DURHAM 1896. ONLY CHILD OF HERBERT ARTHUR BATES & ALICE BATES, OF SPRINGBANK, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED IN WEST HARTLEPOOL. SERVED AS LANCE CORPORAL, IN THE 6TH KINGS OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS. WOUNDED AT LOOS BATTLE, IN 1915. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 15/04/1918, AGED 22. HIS NAME IS LISTED ON HULL’S ALDBROUGH STREET MEMORIAL.
HE IS PICTURED WITH HIS COUSIN PRIVATE, S. HIGGINS, KOSB, IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 28/10/1915. *
First name:
JOHN HENRY RICHARD
Military Number:
16016
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Date Died
15/04/1918
Place died:
Tyne Cot Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age:
22
10 , HALL STREET, SPRING BANK, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
