In Memory Of
BATE, RICHARD SHEPPERSON
Service Details
Age:
22
Date of Birth:
1922-05-26
Service No:
194642V
Rank:
Lieutenant
Unit 2:
attd. No. 41 R.M. Commando. Royal Marines
Regiment:
General Service Corps, S.A. Forces
Date of Death:
1945-02-16
Cause of Death:
Died of wounds, whilst a POW, in a German camp, at Werkendam, Holland
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
Row 7. Grave 5.
Cemetery:
WERKENDAM PROTESTANT CEMETERY
Country:
Netherlands
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.
