BATES, George Robert
| Service Number: | 1390 |
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| Enlisted: | 15 January 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 5th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia, 21 November 1877 |
| Home Town: | Hamilton, Queensland |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Mayfield, New South Wales, Australia, 27 May 1929, aged 51 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 2-140. 60. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 15 Jan 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1390, 5th Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 4 Oct 1915: | Involvement Private, 1390, 5th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '2' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Mashobra embarkation_ship_number: A47 public_note: '' | |
| 4 Oct 1915: | Embarked Private, 1390, 5th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Mashobra, Sydney | |
| 23 Apr 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1390, 5th Light Horse Regiment, 1st MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
94 years ago today, on the 28th May 1929, Private George Robert Bates, 5th Australian Light Horse Regiment (Reg No-1390), boilermaker or labourer from Hamilton, New South Wales and 2 Omara Street, Mayfield, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 51. ANGLICAN 2-140. 60. Not married.
Born at Blacktown, New South Wales on the 21st November 1877 to William and Selina Bates, George enlisted on the 15th January 1915 at Brisbane, Queensland.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A47 Mashrobra on the 4th October 1915.
Admitted to hospital 26.6.1917 (not stated), 13.10.1917 (furunculosis, back), 16.12.1917 (furunculosis, back), 7.5.1918 (furunculosis, back).
George was invalided home on the 8th February 1919, being discharged medically unfit (furunculosis, chronic) on the 23rd April 1919.
Nothing located on Trove regarding enlistment, sickness, returning home, etc.
Mr. Bates’s name has been inscribed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall. Name possibly inscribed on a Queensland War Memorial or Roll of Honour.
I have placed poppies at George’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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