Selected Biography

Gates, Herbert Dudley – Born: Leyton, Essex on 3.11.1891.[1]   Parents: Herbert Henry Gates (Milling Engineer at the Stafford Allen Works) and Annie [née Rennick].  Home: Mill House, Stafford Allen Works, Long Melford (1901 and 1911), 91 Upton Road, Bexleyheath, Kent (1939) to [1954].  Occupation: School Teacher (1911), Engineer’s Clerk in Gun Control Gear Drawing Office (1939).  Service Record: Herbert was attested as Pte.G.21172 with 10^th [Service] Battalion, The Queen’s Own [Royal West Kent] Regiment, part of 123^rd Brigade in 41^st Division, his unit seeing action during the Somme Offensive of 1916, and the Third Battles of Ypres in 1917.  By the time of his discharge, he had been issued with a new service N^o. L/13758 and attained the rank of Company Quartermaster Sergeant.[2]  Died: The Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London on 29.12.1954.[3]

Notes – [1] Date of birth from the 1939 Register for Bexley, Kent.  [2] Service Medal and Award Rolls 1914-1918 [WO 329] and Service Medal and Award Rolls Index Cards 1914-1922 [WO 372].  [3] Date of death from the National Probate Calendar.