Name: BATLEY, FREDERICK
Initials: F
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Warrant Officer Class II (C.S.M.)
Regiment/Service: Manchester Regiment
Unit Text: 7th Bn.
Age: 32
Date of Death: 03/02/1945
Service No: 3531291
Additional information: Son of Arthur and Alice Batley, of Manchester; husband of Audrey Batley, of Miles Platting, Manchester.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: VI. 318.
Cemetery: BRUNSSUM WAR CEMETERY
Adopted by: Michel van Dijke

“According to our records, Warrant Officer Class II. Frederick Batley was one of 18 casualties recovered from Schimmert and reburied in Brunssum war Cemetery in July 1946.  There were 2 plots at Schimmert.  The first plot containing 12 casualties was located to the North-East of Schimmert, in the vicinity of the junction of Leeuwenkuilsweg and Mareweg.  The other plot of 6 casualties was to the North-West along the Langstraat.  We do not have photographs of either of these plots.

Source - Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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