Private 17376 Walter BATES

Private 17376 Walter Bates{gallery}NuneatonRWR-Thiepval{/gallery}14th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Killed in action in The Attacks on High Wood, Somme, France and Flanders, 30th July 1916, aged 25

• Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial Memorial, Somme, France. Pier and Face 9 A, 9 B and 10 B
  
• Awarded: British War and Victory Medals
• Son of John and Mary Bates
  
• NNWFHS Memorial: Chilvers Coton Boys School | Chilvers Coton Bellringers Memorial | Nuneaton WWI RWR

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Record for Private Bates
• Thiepval Memorial
• Royal Warwickshire Regiment
• Coventry Diocesan Guild of Church Bellringers
• Central Council of Church Bellringers

• Military, Census and Family History Information
• Born Oct Qtr 1890 at Chilvers Coton
  
• Lived at 51 College Street, Chilvers Coton [1901 & 1911]
  
• Employed as a brickyard labourer [1911]
  
• Enlisted at Nuneaton