Private 49373 John Bates
Regiment/Unit: Lancashire Fusiliers - 19th Bn.
Theatre of War: France & Flanders
Previous Reg/Num: 21529, South Lancs Regt.
Age at death: 36
Date of death: 13th of October 1918
Born: St Helens, Lancs
Resided: St Helens, Lancs
Burial / Memorial: Haspres Coppice Cemetery Haspres - A. 62.
BMD details:
Marriage: 07/05/1904 John BATES to Florence INGHAM at Prescot St Mary.
Family details:
Widow Florence is legatee.
Census details:
1891 - 9 years old John is living at 84 Ramford Street, Parr, St Helens with parents James - a coal miner (39), Jane (40) and eight siblings: William (17), Esther (15), Frederick (14), Winifred (11), Martha (7), Jane (5), Arthur (3), Samuel (3 mths). 1901 - 19 years old 'Coal Miner' John is living at 38 Fleet Lane, Parr, St Helens with parents James - a coal miner hewer (50), Jane (50) and three siblings: Arthur (12), Jane (14), Alice (9). Also at the address is James's niece Eveline Bate (2). 1911 - Sees 29 years old 'Coal Miner - Hewer' John living at 158 Parr Stocks Road, Parr, St Helens with wife of six years Florence (27) and three children: Vincent (6), William John (4), Edith (2). Boarding at the address is Peter Ingham (39).
Notes:
[note=186]Two Bates brothers who died in The Great War[/note] [url=lmem.php?lmem=13]Remembered On Parr St Peters War Memorial[/url] Buried beside [cas=2624]Thomas Smart[/cas] & [cas=1466]William Wills[/cas] Age taken from census.
[note=186]Two Bates brothers who died in The Great War[/note] [url=lmem.php?lmem=13]Remembered On Parr St Peters War Memorial[/url] Buried beside [cas=2624]Thomas Smart[/cas] & [cas=1466]William Wills[/cas] Age taken from census.
[pic]imgs/WW1_misc/49373JohnBates.jpg[/pic][caption]Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929[/caption]
[pic]imgs/sppics/T_Smart_W_Wills_J_Bate_LF.jpg[/pic][caption]The headstone of Private John Bate at Haspres Coppice Cemetery, Haspres
(Photograph courtesy of Ste M.)[/caption]
