CLS Chronicle 11/02/1916
John Taylor and Ann Norman have submitted the following:
Edward Musgrove Bates, who was apparently known as Ned, was born on 3rd March 1895, in Windy Nook, the eldest of five children of James and Mary Bates. His father was employed as a coal miner and the family lived at 28 Eighton Terrace, Wrekenton.
Edward served as a Private with the 2nd Battalion, Royal Marines, number Po/272 (S). He was killed at Gallipoli on 31st December 1915 and is buried at Redoubt Cemetery, Helles, Gallipoli, Turkey.
