Bert Bates

Private Bert Bates of Oldpark, Belfast served in Normandy with 1/6th Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment at the time of his death on 7th August 1944.

Private

Bert Bates

4923643

Bert Bates of Oldpark, Belfast served in 1/6th Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment and fought in the Normandy campaign of the summer of 1944.

Private Bert Bates (4923643) served in 1/6th Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment during the Second World War. He was the son of Samuel Roland Bates and Ellen Bates, and husband of Sadie Bates of Oldpark, Belfast.

Bert Bates died on 7th August 1944 aged 31 years old. His grave is in Section XXII, Row E, Grave 1 of Bayeux War Cemetery, Bayeux, Normandy, France. His headstone bears the inscription:

Safe in God’s keeping. We shall meet again.

References
  1. Commonwealth War Graves
  2. Fallen Heroes of Normandy