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Lance Sergeant Eric James Bate

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Military Medal (MM)

Military service

Service number: 55146
Age: 26
Rank: Lance Sergeant
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division: 19th Battalion A Company
Birth: December 23, 1890 Hagley, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
Death: November 8, 1917

Burial/memorial information

TYNE COT CEMETERY
Grave reference: XXXV. H. 5.
Additional information

Son of James Bradnee and Elizabeth (née Page) Bate of Toronto, Ontario. He was born in Hagley, Worcestershire, England.

Brother of George Spencer, William Bradnee, Marguerite, Muriel Frances and Winifred Mary. Eric and his eldest brother George were very close and could often be found canoeing together on the local river in Hagley or enjoying a game of hockey.

George kept journals, dated 1898,1908 through 1913 which have helped today`s generation of the Bate family recreate their family tree as well as learn about the family's way of life so many years ago.

Military Medal citation:
(Awarded for leadership at Vimy Ridge - April 9, 1917).
For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty in action. During the advance, the N.C.O.'s of his section had become casualties. As senior soldier he rallied the men and by his own fearless example led the men to their objective. Throughout the action this man showed a total disregard for danger and was a brilliant example to the men.

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First World War (1914 – 1918)

In the Books of Remembrance

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Page 197 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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TYNE COT CEMETERY Belgium

Tyne Cot Cemetery is located 9 Km north east of Ieper town centre on the Tynecotstraat, a road leading from the Zonnebeekseweg (N332). The cemetery itself lies 700 meters along the Tynecotstraat on the right hand side of the road.

Tyne Cot or Tyne Cottage was the name given by the Northumberland Fusiliers to a barn which stood near the level crossing on the Passchendaele-Broodseinde road. Three of these blockhouses still stand in the cemetery; the largest, which was captured on 4 October 1917 by the 3rd Australian Division, was chosen as the site for the Cross of Sacrifice by King George V during his pilgrimage to the cemeteries of the Western Front in Belgium and France in 1922.

The Tyne Cot Cemetery is now the resting-place of nearly 12,000 soldiers of the Commonwealth Forces, the largest number of burials of any Commonwealth cemetery of either world war.

For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

 

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