Frederick Henry Pates was my second cousin three times removed, and was born in Basford, Notts, in 1890, oldest of the five children of William and Rose (nee Scrivens). Christened on 10 February that year, the family moved to Papplewick by the time of the 1901 census and Frederick was at school.
In 1911, by now the head of the household after the deaths of his parents, Frederick was head horseman in Bestwood, Notts. In 1914 he married Florence Bailey and they begat two children. He enlisted in the Machine Gun Corps (Infantry) and died of wounds in Flanders on 25 November 1917. He is buried in Dozinghem Military Cemetery.
We will remember them.
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