Cemetery: Ploegsteert Memorial
Country: Belgium
Area: Comines-Warnetonhainaut
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Official Number: 19376
Unit: 2nd Bn. East Lancashire Regiment.
Country of Service: British
Details: 9th May 1915. Age 34. Son of David and Mary Bates of Oldham; husband of Martha Bates of 244 Henshaw St. Oldham. Panel 5 and 6.
Photograph by Jean Michel Van Eslende