Leicestershire War Memorials

Rifleman Bertie Bates, 305512

Batt - 2/8
Unit - London Regiment
Section -

Date of Birth - 1899
Died - 23/03/1918
Age - 19

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Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Charles Bates a Granite Quarryman Blocker, born 1867 in Mountsorrel, Leicestershire and his wife Maria, born 1871 in St. John's, Newfoundland. Bertie was born in 1899 in Rothley, Leicestershire, his siblings were Nellie Elizabeth, born 1894 in Mountsorrel, Leicestershire and Robert Butt Bates, born 1901 born in Rothley, Leicestershire, in March 1901 the family home was at Mountsorrel Lane, Rothley, Leicestershire, this being situated within the Ecclesiastical Parish of St. Mary. In April 1911 Bertie was a Schoolboy and was residing in the family home at Rothley Lane, Mountsorrel, Leicestershire together with his parents and siblings Nellie, Robert and Reginald Charles, born 1904 in Rothley, Leicestershire. Bertie was serving with 1st/5th Bn. London Rifle Brigade, but at time of death had been posted to 2nd/8th Bn. Post Office Rifles.

Leicestershire Project Findings

Conflict - World War I
Burial Place - Panel 86, Pozieres Memorial

Research from Michael Doyle's Their Name Liveth For Evermore

Unit - London Regiment
Former Unit - 1/5 London Regt.
Cause of death - KILLED IN ACTION
Burial Commemoration - Pozieres Mem., Somme, France
Born - Rothley, Leics
Enlisted - Loughborough, Leics
Place of Residence - Aqua Pura Villa, Rothley Road, Mountsorrel, Leicestershire, England
Memorial - MOUNTSORREL MEM., LEICS
Memorial - ROTHLEY MEM., LEICS

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