Name
Amos Bates
8/11/1883
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/12/1916
33
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
27684
Bedfordshire Regiment
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BERLES POSITION MILITARY CEMETERY
A. 4.
France
Headstone Inscription
FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH
UK & Other Memorials
Borehamwood Town Memorial, All Saints Church Memorial, Borehamwood
Pre War
Amos Bates Jr. was born on 8 November 1883, in Little Eaton, Derbyshire, son of Amos Bates Sr. and Caroline (nee Spooner) Bates. He was one of nine surviving children.
He was Baptised on the 9 December 1883, with his elder sister Frances Mary Bates in the parish Church Littleover, Derbyshire.
1891 Census records the family now living in Harris Lane, Shenley Hertfordshire, Amos Jr. is recorded aged 7, living with his parents and four siblings.
1901 Census Amos Jr. aged 17, working as a Brick Burner’s Labourer, living with his parents and seven siblings in, Green Street Cottage, Shenley, Herts.
1911 Census records Amos Jr. aged 27, Single, his occupation is given as “Usual occupation brick burner” living with his parents and seven siblings at 8 Furze Hill Road, Borehamwood, Herts.
Amos Jr. married Ada Durrant, the daughter of Stephen and Ruth Durrant of Kirdford, Sussex, in the latter part of 1915, the marriage was registered in Barnet.
Wartime Service
Amos Jr. enlisted at Bedford posted to the Bedfordshire Regiment with the service number 27684. Serving on the Western Front.
He was Killed in Action on 16 December 1916, he is buried in the Berles Position Military Cemetery, in the Pas de Calais Region of France. Grave Ref. A. 4.
Additional Information
Ada received a widows pension of 13/9 a week from 9 July 1917, and his effects of £2-6s-2d, Pay Owing and his War Gratuity of £3. His widow, Mrs. A. Wright, Thornlea, New Road, Smallfield, Nr. Horley, Surrey, ordered his headstone inscription: "FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH". Ada Bates later remarried and became Ada Wright in June 1921.
Acknowledgments
Taff Williams, Stuart Osborne
Jonty Wild, Taff Williams,
