In Memory Of
BATES, WILLIAM VOSS
Service Details
Age:
34
Date of Birth:
1911-03-02
Service No:
410296
Rank:
Warrant Officer
Regiment:
Royal Australian Air Force
Date of Death:
1945-03-07
Cause of Death:
Killed in action, Catalina A24-203, one of three RAAF Catalina aircraft tasked to lay mines off the Pescadores. The aircraft departed Lingayen Gulf at 1630 hours on 7 March 1945 and nothing further was heard from it
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
Panel 32.
Cemetery:
LABUAN MEMORIAL
Country:
Malaysia
Additional Information
Son of Frederic Micheal and Jessie Flora Bates; husband of Mary Gwen Bates, of Redcliffs, Queensland. Born Cape Town, South Africa
