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NAME:                      Bates, Edward Percy
RANK:                      Flying Officer
UNIT:                      Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
BATTALION ETC:             9 Squadron
REGIMENTAL NUMBER:         189351
HOW DIED/DATE OF DEATH:    1st January 1945 over Dortmund-Ems Canal
WHERE BURIED/COMMEMORATED: Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
OTHER INFORMATION:         Age 31. Son of Sir Percy Elly Bates, G.B.E., 4th Bt., and of Lady Bates (nee Lefroy), of Neston, Cheshire.
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