Private Abraham Bates

Army Number : 1146

Battalion : 1/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Church Gresley, Derbyshire. Son of Edwin James and Hannah Bates of Colliery Row, Church Gresley. Husband of Beatrice Hilda Newbound (formerly Bates), of 6, Plants Yard, Worksop, Nottinghamshire. He was a Pony Driver at Steetley Colliery, near Worksop prior to enlisting 11th May 1911 at Worksop. He went to France 2nd March 1915 and was killed in action, 21st April 1915, whilst out on a wiring party in front of the trenches at Kemmel, Belgium.

Buried/Commemorated : Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery, Belgium. Row E. Grave 66.

Private Abraham Bates is also commemorated on the following local memorials :-
Worksop War Memorial, Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
St. Mary and St. Cuthbert Priory Church War Memorial, Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
Manton Colliery War Memorial, (St. Mary and St. Cuthbert Priory Church) Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
St. Anne’s Church War Memorial, Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.