Simon Glancey has submitted the following:
Sgt. Gates was killed when Bristol Blenheim IV T6065 TR-A of 59 Squadron was lost on a reconnaissance mission to Brest. The Blenheim was returning to its base at R.A.F. Thorney Island when it crashed into a hill in fog at Winterbourne Abbas, with the loss of all three crew members.
Royal Air Force Coastal Command Losses of the Second World War: Vol.1: Aircraft and Crew Losses 1939-1941; Ross McNeill; 2003; Midland Publishing; ISBN 1 85780 128 8, page 108
Also killed in the same incident was Sgt. E.K. Robinson
George Stoddart Gates is remembered in Darlington on D40.035
