Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Book, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in the action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =BATEMAN, WILLIAM THOMAS=, Private, No. 748, 16th Battn. Australian Imperial Force; _d._ 15 May, 1915, of wounds received in action at the Dardanelles. =BATES, FRANK=, Private, No. 2020, 4th Battn. Royal Sussex Regt. (T.F.); _d._ at Cuckfield 31 Jan. 1915, of heart failure, while training. =BATES, GEORGE=, A.B. (R.F.R., Ch. B. 9776), 210136, H.M.S. Cressy; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BATES, JAMES CHRISTOPHER=, Private, No. 11259, 1st Battn. Coldstream Guards, _s._ of Joseph Bates, of 113, Woodland Street, Smethwick, co. Stafford; served with Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders; reported missing 22 Dec. 1914, and now assumed to have been killed in action on that date. =BATES, STANES GEOFFREY=, Capt., 7th Queen's Own Hussars, and Adjutant, North Somersetshire Yeomanry, only _s._ of Gilbert Thompson Bates, tenant of Mells Park, Frome, Somerset, J.P. [2nd _s._ of Sir Edward Bates, 1st Bt., M.P.], by his wife, Charlotte Thaxter, dau. of George Warren, of Woolton; _b._ London, 2 June, 1884; educ. Farnborough, Winchester, and Sandhurst. He joined the 7th Queen's Own Hussars, 22 April, 1903, and was promoted Lieut. 27 April, 1907, and Capt. 11 May, 1912. He spent two and a-half years in South Africa, and returned with his regt. in Dec. 1906, when they were quartered at Norwich and afterwards at Aldershot. In Oct. 1911 the regt. went to Bangalore, where he remained until July, 1913, when he returned to England on leave, shortly afterwards (1 Nov.) receiving the Adjutancy of the North Somersetshire Yeomanry. He went to the front with this regt. and was wounded at Vlamertinghe during the 1st battle of Ypres, 16 Nov. 1914, but was able to return to the front from the Base Hospital in a few days. At the 2nd battle of Ypres he was killed instantaneously in the trenches at Hooge by a shell explosion, 13 May, 1915; _unm._ He was buried there the same day, amid a few trees behind the line held by the North Somersets. For their conduct on this occasion the North Somersets were specially mentioned in Despatches. He was much beloved by his men in both regts., and his loss deeply regretted by his Colonel and brother officers in the 7th Hussars. A good all-round sportsman and well-known with the Blackmore Vale Hounds. [Illustration: =Stanes Geoffrey Bates.=] =BATES, STANLEY KNIGHT=, Lieut., 5th Battn. The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regt.), yr. _s._ of Lieut.-Col. John Henry Bates, late 2nd in command of the same regt., formerly of Fir Bank, Penrith, Manager of the Penrith branch of the Liverpool Bank, by his wife, Sarah Eleanor, dau. of the late William Knight, of Milnthorpe, co. Westmorland; _b._ Morcambe, co. Lancaster, 19 June, 1897; educ. Lancaster Royal Grammar School in which he was House Prefect, and an Ashton House Exhibitioner. On the outbreak of war he obtained a commission in his father's regt., 10 Aug. 1914, was promoted Lieut., 28 Dec. 1914, and went along with his father to France with his regt., 11 Feb. 1915. He was killed during the second Battle of Ypres in an advanced trench off the Zonnebeke River in front of Potijze at noon on Sunday, 9 May, 1915, while bringing food for the few men he had left with him. He was buried in front of the White Château, Potijze, near Ypres, where an iron cross was erected to his memory. Lieut. Bates took a great interest in the work of the O.T.C. from its commencement, obtained his colours in the Rugby team, and was also in the School Cricket team. A keen athlete, he was intended for the Army and was proud of the distinction of being the youngest full Lieut. in the Army; _unm._ [Illustration: =Stanley Knight Bates.=] =BATES, WILLIAM GEORGE HENRY=, Capt., 1st Battn. (Prince of Wales's) Leinster Regt., 2nd _s._ of the Rev. William Wheatley Bates, M.A., of Toronto, by his wife, Emily, dau. of Manasseh (and Emma) Leeson, extensive landowner of Canada; _b._ Thornhill, Toronto, 12 Oct. 1878; educ. privately, and Trinity College, Toronto. He enlisted in the Lancashire Fusiliers in 1901, hoping to see active service in South Africa, but the regt. was ordered to Crete and kept there until the conclusion of the campaign. After serving over two years in the ranks, he was given a commission, 7 Nov. 1903, in the Leinster Regt., and promoted Lieut. 15 Dec. 1906, and Capt. 21 Sept. 1912. He saw much foreign service, serving in Crete, Malta, Gibraltar, South Africa, Mauritius and India. In South Africa he was Instructor in the School of Musketry, and invented an automatic elevating and traversing machine gun gear, which is now (1916) being tested in the Hythe School of Musketry. On the outbreak of war Capt. Bates was in India, and arrived with his regt. in Flanders 21 Dec. 1914, holding the double command of Company and Brigade Machine Gun Officer. He went through all the heavy fighting for Ypres, and served continuously until he was killed in action, shot through the head near Ypres, 26 April, 1915. His commanding officer wrote: "Your husband was one of the bravest and most gallant men I know, and his death leaves a gap which cannot be filled. I can only add that he died like the gallant man he was." A brother officer also wrote: "The regt. can say of him that he never asked a man to do a thing he would not do himself. He simply did not know fear, and would always tell us that dying was part of the game. It isn't only we officers who admired him, but every man who knew him would have followed him anywhere--everywhere he he led." He _m._ at St. Margaret's Church, Warnham, co. Essex, 10 Aug. 1912, Mabel (Dent, Warnham, Sussex), yst. dau. of Hastings Castor Draper, and left a son and a dau.: Lionel William Leeson, _b._ 25 May, 1913, and Pamela Dorcas, _b._ 2 June, 1914. [Illustration: =William George H. Bates.=] =BATEY, EDWARD HENRY=, Stoker, 1st Class (R.F.R., B. 7358), S.S. 102501, H.M.S. Aboukir; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =BATEY, ROBERT=, Private., No. 1852, 1/7th (Leith Territorial) Battn. Royal Scots, yr. _s._ of Edward Batey, of 22, Ryehill Gardens, Leith, Linotype Operator, by his wife, Christina Allen, dau. of Thomas Morrison; _b._ Walworth, S.E., 7 Jan. 1897; educ. at Parson's Green School, Edinburgh, and Broughton Higher Grade School, Edinburgh; enlisted on the outbreak of war, 31 Aug. 1914, and was killed in the railway accident near Gretna on 22 May, 1915; _unm._ He was buried in Rosebank Cemetery, Edinburgh. [Illustration: =Robert Batey.=] =BATSON, ALFRED WILLIAM=, Lieut. 2nd Battn. Duke of Cornwall's L.I., only _s._ of William Lascelles Batson, of Dorking, Surrey, by his wife, Barbara Edwina, dau. of Edward Hugh Blakeney, M.D.; _b._ Dorking 25 Feb. 1887; educ. Fonthill, East Grinstead, Wellington College, and Sandhurst; was gazetted 2nd Lieut. to the Duke of Cornwall's L.I., 9 Oct. 1907, and Lieut. 17 March, 1910. He served in Bermuda, South Africa (where he was attached to the Mounted Infa |