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Pte. William Booth Bate
British Army 5th Btn. Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
from:Bolton
One of the wounded men was a Private William Booth Bate of Bolton rank no 2058 who, for the rest of his life, had to use two sticks. He died in 1970 of complications of his wounds. He was my grand father who I am very proud of.
Capt. Arthur Cyril Bateman MM.
British Army att. 7th Btn. Cameron Highlanders Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
(d.28th Mar 1918)
Arthur Bateman was the son of Godfrey Bateman, LL.D., and Frances Emily Bateman, of 28 Clarinda Park East, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin He served with the Royal Army Medical Corps and was attached to the 7th Battalion of the Cameron Highlanders. He died aged 27 in March 1918 in France, and is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial.
Pte. Frank Bateman
British Army 1/4th Btn. Yorks & Lancs Regiment
from:Sheffield,
(d.10th Sep 1918)
Frank Bateman was executed for desertion 10/09/1918 age 28 and buried in Villers Station Cemetery, Villers-au-Bois, France. He as the son of Mr. C. Bateman, of 3 Kilton St., Sheffield
Julian Putkowski and Julian Sykes in their book "Shot at Dawn state that Frank was initially posted to 1/4 King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (49 West Riding Division) at the end of June 1915. The Battalion served at Ypres in the Autumn of 1915 and then transferred to the Somme in 1916. Frank was wounded in the summer of that year and after recovery was posted to 1/5 Battalion. He first deserted in 1917 and received a sentence of one year’s imprisonment that was suspended. Later that year he was returned to England with this time a self inflicted wound.
Returning to his original Battalion in 1918 (1/4 King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry) he deserted again and received a fifteen year sentence again suspended. In June 1918 he went missing yet again and received the death sentence at the subsequent court martial. The sentence was carried out on 10th September 1918. Frank was the sixth and final soldier from Sheffield to be executed. It was of course just two months from the end of the war.
Pte. Fred Bateman MM.
Fred Bateman was awarded the Military Medal.
Pte. Harold Bateman
British Army 1st/13th Btn. (Kensington) London Regiment
from:Bromley, Kent
(d.1st Sep 1918)
My Great Uncle, Harold Bateman was only 18 years old when he was killed in action and I understand that my Great Grand Mother's hair turned white overnight when she heard the news - a younger brother was then named after him. He is commemorated at the Vis-en-Artois Memorial panel 10.
Pte. Henry Ernest Bateman
British Army 6th Btn. Dorsetshire Regiment
(d.4th Nov 1918)
My great uncle Henry Bateman was a private in the 6th Btn Dorsetshire Regiment. He was killed in action on 4th of November 1918. He was 19 years old.
Bmdr. Herbert Bateman
British Army Royal Horse Artillery
(d.3rd Dec 1917)
Herbert Bateman was born in Dublin and enlisted in Lambeth, London. He served with the Royal Horse Artillery and died of wounds in December 1917.
2nd.Lt. Hubert Harry Bateman
British Army 4th Btn. Worcestershire Regiment
from:Birmingham
(d.23rd April 1917)
Second Lieutenant Hubert Bateman served with 4th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment.
Gnr. J F Bateman
British Army A Bty. 124th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
J. Bateman's name appears as a friend in a WWI diary of 1918/19.
Pte. Joseph Bateman
British Army 2nd Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment
from:Sheffield,
(d.3rd Dec 1917)
Joseph Bateman was executed for desertion 03/12/1917 and buried in Rocquigny-Equancourt Road British Cemetery, Manacourt, France. Se was the son of Mr. C. Bateman, of 3 Kilton St., Sheffield and was aged 28.
The granddaughter of a soldier shot for desertion has met the man behind adding his name to a war memorial on a visit to the monument. WW1 soldier Pte Joseph Bateman - one of 306 British deserters shot - was executed in December 1917 by firing squad. Historian Graham Hodgson got Dudley Council to add the soldier's name to Wordsley's war memorial. The Staffordshire Regiment soldier's grand-daughter, Judith Lampitt, was tracked down after a TV appeal. "Mr Hodgson has done all of the hard work. We didn't know how my grandfather had died. I knew he died in the war, he'd been shot in the war, but I had no idea at all he had died in that way."
Capt. Reginald John Godfrey Bateman MID
Canadian Forces 46th Btn. (Saskatchewan Regiment)
(d.3rd Sep 1918)
Reginald Bateman, son of Godfrey Bateman, LL.D., and Frances Emily Bateman, of 14 Adelaide Street, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, was born on October 12th 1883 in Listowel, County Kerry, Ireland. In 1906 he received a B.A. from Trinity College, Dublin, having studied English, French, and Modern History. Three years later he was hired at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, as its first professor of English, and one of the first four professors at the new university.
In October 1914 Reginald Bateman enlisted in the 28th Infantry Battalion, and later fought with them around Ypres. He then accepted an invitation from Walter Charles Murray, president of the University of Saskatchewan, to take command of the Saskatchewan Company of the 196th (Western Universities) Infantry Battalion. Whilst spending the summer and autumn of 1916 in Canada he passed his officer’s exams, and became a major. After he arrived in England the 196th was broken up, and so Bateman reverted from major to lieutenant so that he could see action again.
Bateman was posted to the 46th Infantry Battalion, arriving at the Western Front in June 1917. He was an acting captain during the attack on the Drocourt-Quéant Line, when he was killed by a shell dropping at the entrance to battalion headquarters near Dury, France. Captain Bateman was 34 years old, and is commemorated on Vimy Memorials, France.The Bateman Memorial Fund at University of Saskatchewan was founded in 1932 to provide scholarships for students.
Pte. Samuel Bateman
British Army 7th Btn. Royal Irish Regiment
from:Dublin
(d.12th Dec 1917)
Samuel Bateman served with the 7th Battalion Royal Irish Regiment having formerly served as 1608 South Irish Horse. He was killed in action on the 12th December 1917 and is buried in Templeux-Le-Guerard British Cemetery on the Somme. Samuel was the son of Mr. T. Bateman, of 10, Dorset Avenue, Dorset St., Dublin.
Pte. Wilfred Joseph Bateman
British Army 12th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment
from:Hanham, Bristol
Wilfred Joseph Bateman joined up in 1916. At 5ft 2" he wasn't the biggest recruit. His father owned the Blue Bowl in Hanham. He moved to the front in December 1916 seeing action east of Bethune in places like Cuinchy, Auburs and Richeborg; essentially La Bassee front. This was an area of heavy fighting, particularly the brickstacks around Cuinchy. The regimental diary talks of a daring trench raid in this area which took two prisoners.
Sadly, or fortunately, his war would end at the end of March 1917. The unit was in Burbure away from the front training on the 29th. Wilfred's hand was blown off during grenade practice. He was brought back to England from Le Havre on the hospital ship Panama where he recovered. He spent some time in Queen Mary's Auxiliary Hospital in Roehampton, where skin grafts developed, presumably to have his hand treated. He married in October 1917.
The family story was always that he had lost his hand shielding a young Australian boy from a grenade blast. My Nan, his daughter, said the boy's father, a vicar, always wrote each Christmas, to thank him for his heroism. However, there is no recorded account of this and the regimental diary only talks of a training accident and a premature explosion. We will never know. Great Grampy Bateman lived to the age of 90, dying in 1977. He could open a bottle of beer with one hand late in his life!
Pte. John Bater
British Army 7th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Chumleigh, Devon
(d.25th March 1918)
John Bater was one of three brothers killed in WW1.
Lt Bates
Canadian Army 1st Canadian Tunnelling Coy.
VAD. Bates
Voluntary Aid Detachment No. 16 Stationary Hospital
Pte. Edward Bates
British Army 1st Garrison Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers
from:Dublin
(d.31st Oct 1917)
Edward Bates had formerly with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers. He died in India whilst serving with the Royal Irish Fusiliers.
Pte. Eustace Bates
British Army 2nd Dragoon Guards
from:Aldershot
(d.1st Sep 1914)
6328 Private Eustace Bates was killed aged 25 on the 1st of September 1914, in the Picardie village of Néry. The village was the site of a largely cavalry-versus-cavalry action early in World War; which occurred as the overwhelmed British Expeditionary Force retreated from Mons in August 1914. Eustace Bates was in the 2nd Dragoon Guards (The Bays) part of the British 1st Cavalry Brigade. He would fall that fateful Friday along with 17 of his comrades in ‘The Bays’ – the exact details of his death at Néry are not recorded.
The British Cavalry and their Royal Horse Artillery battery at Néry were caught largely unawares, but managed to repel a surprise attack by the German 4th Cavalry Division (twice the number of cavalrymen and guns). The British defence against the odds resulted in the stemming of the German cavalry advance, the capture of 12 German guns and three Victoria Crosses awarded to soldiers of L Battery, Royal Horse Artillery, as well as numerous other decorations.
Eustace was the son of a soldier, although he would not have known him; as his father (a retired bandmaster of the 2nd Battalion Wiltshire Regiment) died shortly after Eustace was born in the Sabathu Cantonment, India – his father was aged 40. His father, Robert David Yates, was originally from Canada; he had joined the 100th Regiment of Foot in 1864, whilst they were stationed in Malta (probably as a drummer boy aged 13). Robert eventually transferred to the Wiltshire Regiment whilst stationed in India. Prior to his military service the 1901 census records him as being a pupil at the Duke of York’s Royal Military School in Chelsea, London. Eustace Bates was then recorded in the 1911 census as serving as a private in the “The Bays†- well before the outbreak of the Great War. The regiment would leave Aldershot and embark for France in August 1914 via troopship from Southampton docks.
Eustace was not married and his listed next of kin was his mother Jane Bates (nee Fletcher). She would live till 1930 and died not far from where she was born in North Lincolnshire. Eustace was the youngest of eight children (although not all eight seemed to have survived to childhood).
Pte. Harold Bates
British Army 2nd/7th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Bedworth
(d.19th July 1916)
Harold Bates was my great grandfather, he never returned from the war and his body was never found. His daughter died 81 years later still knowing nothing about her father.
Pte. Hermann Robert Alfred Bates
British Army 2nd Battalion Leinster Regiment
from:London
(d.27th Mar 1918)
On 17th Dec 1891 Hermann Bates was born in Bloomsbury, London to Andrew Wright Bates (1854-1920), a Police Constable from Chatham in Kent, and Beatrice Marie Bates (nee Milton, 1856-1952), of London. Hermann was baptised on 15 Feb 1891 in the Parish of St George, Bloomsbury. Taking employment as a porter, on 20 Dec 1914, he was married to Louisa Maria Vettraino, the daughter of Italian immigrants, at St Simon's Church Hammersmith, with an address given of 17 Anley Road, Hammersmith.
At some point he enlisted in the military, but his detailed enlistment records were lost in the London Blitz of 1940. He is recorded as being Killed in Action on 27th of Mar 1918, in France (and Flanders) and is buried in Ste. Emilie Valley Cemetery at Villers-Faucon, Somme, France. This cemetery is about 17kms to the west of the town of Peronne.
The list of UK, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914-1919 by the British and Irish Military Databases, published by The Naval and Military Press Ltd. give Hermann�s details as a Private in the 2nd Battalion, Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians), with the Regimental Number 5425. However, this reference also lists him as formerly 146917, Royal Field Artillery and while there is no reason to doubt the veracity of this information, there is no other evidence to corroborate it. It could well be that he was enlisted into the RFA, but transferred to the Leinsters shortly after enlistment, it would not have been an unusual occurrence. While his date of enlistment is unknown, Hermann and Maria had a baby daughter Gladys May on 15th of May 1915 and she was baptised four days later on 19th May. On the baptism register, Hermann's occupation is given as Post Office Porter, so it may be safe to assume that he enlisted after this date.
Pte. James Bates
British Army 22nd (3rd Tyneside Scottish) Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:15 Franklin Street, South Shields,
(d.6th March 1916)
Pte. John Bates
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Irish Regiment
from:Balbriggan, Dublin
(d.14th Feb 1915)
John Bates was killed in action in Flanders and is remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial
Pte. John Bates
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Dublin
(d.4th Oct 1917)
John Bates served with the 1st Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers and was killed in action in October 1917.
2nd Lt. Lewis George Bates
British Arny 6th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Dartmouth, Devon
(d.24th May 1916)
Lewis Bates was the eldest son of George Edwin and Annie Emma Bates of Dartmouth, Devon Born 1896. He died of his wounds on 24th May 1916 aged 21. He is buried at Baghdad's North Gate Cemetery. He is listed on the Dartmouth War memorial, which is located in the Royal Avenue Gardens in Dartmouth. He is also listed within St Saviour's Church, Dartmouth on The War Memorial Board therein & again on the Torquay secondary school 1914 - 1918 war memorial plaque where he had been a student. Sadly I do not have any more information to give about my Great Uncle.
Pte Martin Bates
British Army 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.28th March 1918)
Bates, Martin. Private, 202514, Killed on 28th March 1918,
Remembered on the Pozieres Memorial panel 16 to 18.
From the Northumberland Fusiliers Roll of Honour
Pte. Percy Bates
British Army 7th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment
(d.8th Nov 1918)
Percy Bates was the son of Mrs. E. J. Loggins, of Friday Bridge, Wisbech, Cambs.
Pte. Richard Bates
British Army 2nd/5th Btn. Suffolk Regiment
from:13 Salisbury Street, New North Road, London
A/Sgt. Robert Bates
British Army 59th Field Coy Corps Of Royal Engineers
from:Donabate, Co. Dublin
(d.20th July 1916)
Robert Bates, the son of Matthew and Catherine Bates, of Newbridge Lodge, Donabate, Co. Dublin died of wounds age 38 and is buried at Dantzig Alley British Cemetery, Mametz.
Pte Robert James Bates
British Army 3/1st Battalion Hertfordshire Regiment
from:Hemel Hempstead
(d.5th December 1916)
Born in 1894, Robert Bates lived with his parents, Fredrick and Emily at 55 St John's Road, Hemel Hempstead, and was employed as a mill hand at the Saw Mill (in Kingsland Road, Boxmoor) where his father also worked as a sawyer.
At the age of 21 he enlisted for service at Hertford on the 7th of June 1915 with the Hertfordshire Regiment. After a period of training he was posted to Northern France on the 13th March 1916 within a draft of 100 men.
Unfortunately, Robert’s front line service was to be short lived. Whilst serving in the trenches at Givenchy, he contracted pleural effusion (fluid next to the lung) and was returned to England for rest and treatment. Eventually, as his health deteriorated further, he was discharged from the Army on the 26th of September 1916 suffering from tuberculous peritonitis. By the end of the year he had died.
He is commemorated with honour on the Hemel Hempstead War Memorial. In 2019 as a result of an "in from the cold" application he was officially recognised by the CWGC as a war time casualty.
L/Cpl. Walter Bates
British Army 13th Btn. Middlesex Regiment
from:Bethnal Green
(d.4th Mar 1916)
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