BATES, John

✟ ≠ Щ   478149 Spr 456  Field Coy R.E. Died of wounds 18/10/1917 age 22. (DC 20/11/1917 reported wounded & missing.)  (DC 24/11/1917; ‘died from wounds at a clearing station in France. He has been on active service for 2½ years. His grandmother was Mrs Darwent Bank Top, Hathersage’). He is buried in Nine Elms British Cemetery, West Vlaaderen, Belgium. Nearly all the burial plots there were used by the 3rd Australian & 44th Casualty Clearing Station when they moved to Poperinge Sept 1917, until Dec 1917, for the Battle of Ypres. He is also remembered on the Darwent family grave in Hathersage Churchyard. b 1896 Hathersage.  Mother was Minnie Darwent b1873. He was the grandson of Samuel Cocker who died 10/11/1908 age 67.   1911C living in Doncaster, a crane driver.