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Personal info

Full name
BATES, Edgar S
Date of birth
25 May 1915
Age
29
Place of birth
Connecticut
Hometown
Salisbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut

Military service

Service number
31457302
Rank
Private
Function
Rifleman
Unit
B Company,
48th Armored Infantry Battalion,
7th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
29 October 1944
Place of death
Meijel, The Netherlands

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Margraten
Plot Row Grave
D 11 16

Immediate family

Members
Shedrick J. Bates (father)
Sarah L. (Chase) Bates (mother)
Eva M. Bates (sister)
Ruth Bates (sister)
Shirley A. Bates (sister)
John D. Bates (brother)
Joseph H. Bates (brother)
Ester Bates (twin sister)
Margaret D. Bates (wife)

More information

Pvt Edgar S. Bates was an attendant at a filling station before he enlisted at Fort Devens, Massachusetts on 22 March 1944.

He was first buried in a temporary grave at Margraten on 27 November 1944. He was disinterred on 14 July 1948 and his remains were prepared and placed in a casket on 15 July 1948. Pvt Bates was given his final resting place on 6 January 1949.

Source of information: Raf Dyckmans, Peter Schouteten, Astrid van Erp, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, IDPF, http://www.7tharmddiv.org/index.htm, www.ancestry.com - Family Trees

Photo source: Peter Schouteten, Amerikaanse begraafplaats Margraten - Miranda Prevaes