Name: GATES, FRANCIS JAMES
Initials: F J
Nationality: United Kingdom
Rank: Private
Regiment/Service: Hampshire Regiment
Unit Text: 7th Bn.
Age: 36
Date of Death: 22/11/1944
Service No: 5732270
Additional information: Son of Francis James Gates and Lilian Maud Gates, of Jersey, Channel Islands; husband of Jeanne Gates-Le Ber.
Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference: II. 34.
Cemetery: BRUNSSUM WAR CEMETERY
Adopted by: Job Mevis

F.J. Gates

F.J. Gates

F.J. Gates - Top row, second left

Mrs. J. Gates-Le Ber + Mr. F.J. Gates

Mrs. J. Gates-Le Ber + Mr. F.J. Gates + Daughter Sonia

F.J. Gates and his Daughter Sonia

Article from The Evening Post - 17 April 1945

 

3 May 2010 Sonia Nursey - Daughter of Francis James, Gates

Job Mevis, who adopted the grave of James Gates, lays flowers

Source-Bron: Sonia Nursey - Daughter of Francis James, Gates