Francis Stewart Montague Bates

BrigadierGeneral Francis Stewart Frank MontagueBates, CB, CMG, DSO , was a British Army officer in the early part of the 20th Century, serving in the Second Boer War, World War I, the Occupation of Constantinople the AngloIrish War and World War II.

Francis Stewart MontagueBates was born onFebruary 1876, the only son of Henry Montague Bates and Mary MontagueBates, her second husband, whom she married in 1872, following the death of her first husband from Cholera, Colonel Andrew Gammell of the 12th Lancers, in 1869. The family lived in London and also had property in Manaccan, Cornwall. Captain Montague Bates was married in Canada in 1910 to Gladys Thomas of Plymouth. They had one son, Patrick Montague Bates born in 1914, who, after education at Wellington College on a scholarship, joined Imperial Airways. He was a member of the RAFVR, called up in late 1939, trained as a pilot officer in 1940 and was shot down by a Messerschmidt 109 and killed in action in early 1941 piloting a Blenheim IV, whilst returning from a mission bombing a viaduct during the invasion of Crete by German Forces

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