Service Details
Name:
 BATES
Given Name:
 WILLIAM VOSS
Initials:
 W V
Service No:
 410296
Rank:
 Warrant Officer
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Regiment:
 Royal Australian Air Force
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Date of Death:
 1945-03-07
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Date of Birth:
 1911-03-02
Age:
 34
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, Catalina A24-203, one of three RAAF Catalina aircraft tasked to lay mines off the Pescadores. The aircraft departed Lingayen Gulf at 1630 hours on 7 March 1945 and nothing further was heard from it
Additional
Information:
Son of Frederic Micheal and Jessie Flora Bates; husband of Mary Gwen Bates, of Redcliffs, Queensland. Born Cape Town, South Africa
Commemoration
Country:
 Malaysia
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Cemetery:
 LABUAN MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Panel 32.

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