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Military service
Service number:
J/86432
Age:
19
Rank:
Pilot Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
431 Sqdn.
Death:
February 20, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Coll. grave 9. L. 2-7.
Additional information
Son of Thomas H. Bates and Janey Pearl Bates, of Farm Point, Province of Quebec, Canada.
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Chelsea Cenotaph
Pilot Officer John Donald Bates 431 Sqdn, Royal Canadian Air Force, 20th February 1944, aged 19. Son of Thomas H. Bates and Janey Pearl Bates, of Farm Point, Province of Quebec. Commemoration at the Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery, Brandenburg, Germany. -
Photo of John Donald Bates
Pilot Officer John Donald Bates 431 Sqdn, Royal Canadian Air Force, 20th February 1944, aged 19. Son of Thomas H. Bates and Janey Pearl Bates, of Farm Point, Province of Quebec. Commemoration at the Berlin 1939-1945 War Cemetery, Brandenburg, Germany. -
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From the Ottawa Citizen. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Photo of JOHN DONALD BATES
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Grave Marker
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Document
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Biography
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Grave Marker
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Memorial
Pilot Officer John Donald Bates is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Pilot Officer John Donald Bates is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper Clipping
Remembered on the pages of the Ottawa Journal. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
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Pilot Officer John Donald Bates
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Pilot Officer John Donald Bates
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Donald Bates
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Donald Bates
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Donald Bates
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Donald Bates
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Donald Bates
Digital gallery of
Pilot Officer John Donald Bates
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Pilot Officer John Donald Bates
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 244 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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