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Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 788

Family Group: Three: Private A.E. Bates, Gloucestershire Regiment 1914-15 Star (23817 Pte. A.E. Bates. Glouc:R.); British War and Victory Medals (23817 Pte. A.E. Bates. Glouc.R.), toned, extremely fine, with Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque ´Albert Edward Bates´, Parchment Memorial Scroll, and photographic image of recipient A 1916 ´Somme´ Casualty Pair to Private W.J. Bates, Gloucestershire Regiment British War and Victory Medals (24732 Pte. W.J. Bates. Glouc.R.), toned, extremely fine, with Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque ´William Joshua Bates´, Parchment Memorial Scroll, and photographic image of recipient (5) Estimate £ 220-250 23817 Private Albert Edward Bates, born in Charlton Kings, the younger son of Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Bates of 2 Millbrook Place, Charlton Kings; enlisted in the 10th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment in Cheltenham, August 1915, ´and was subsequently drafted to France on the 26th December 1915. He drowned in an accident in France on the 17th May 1917 and is buried in Heath Cemetery, Harbonnieres.´ (Leaving All That Was Dear, refers). 24732 Private William Joshua Bates, born in Charlton Kings, the elder son of Mr. and Mrs. W.A. Bates of 2 Millbrook Place, Chartlon Kings; enlisted in the 10th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment in Cheltenham, November 1915, ´He was killed in the battle of Bazentin [17.7.1916] in the Somme sector, has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. The Battalion Diary for the 10th Gloucestershire Regiment reports that one man from ´B´ Coy was killed by the accidental explosion of a bomb in the period 17-19 July; this was almost certainly Private Bates (Leaving All That Was Dear, refers).

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