Service Details
Name:
 BATE
Given Name:
 RICHARD SHEPPERSON
Initials:
 R S
Service No:
 194642V
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 General Service Corps, S.A. Forces
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Unit 2:
 attd. No. 41 R.M. Commando. Royal Marines
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Date of Death:
 1945-02-16
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Date of Birth:
 1922-05-26
Age:
 22
Cause of Death:
 Died of wounds, whilst a POW, in a German camp, at Werkendam, Holland
Additional
Information:
Son of John O. and Edith Jane Bate, of Marine Mansions, Clarence Road, Sea Point, Cape Town. Born Pretoria. A civil servant. He had a brother and a sister.
Commemoration
Country:
 Netherlands
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Cemetery:
 WERKENDAM PROTESTANT CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Row 7. Grave 5.

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