Service Details
Name:
BATE
Given Name:
RICHARD SHEPPERSON
Initials:
R S
Service No:
194642V
Rank:
Lieutenant
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Regiment:
General Service Corps, S.A. Forces
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Unit 2:
attd. No. 41 R.M. Commando. Royal Marines
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Date of Death:
1945-02-16
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Date of Birth:
1922-05-26
Age:
22
Cause of Death:
Died of wounds, whilst a POW, in a German camp, at Werkendam, Holland
Additional
Information:
Son of John O. and Edith Jane Bate, of Marine Mansions, Clarence Road, Sea Point, Cape Town. Born Pretoria. A civil servant. He had a brother and a sister.
Commemoration
Country:
Netherlands
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Cemetery:
WERKENDAM PROTESTANT CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
Row 7. Grave 5.

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