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In Memory of

GATES, CHARLES, C E

Private, C/21628
Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps
who died 24 age
20 August 1943

Remembered with honour
AGIRA WAR CEMETERY, SICILY



Born 20 Lug 1919 South Mountain, Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry United Counties, Ontario, Canada;
Son of Levi and Alice Gates; husband of Muriel Gates, of Burgh Heath, Surrey, England.

Charles was a dispatch rider and was driving on the road from Sortino towards Melilli. From the opposite direction a lorrie was approaching and the driver (Private Versluys) saw Charles driving on the middle of the road. Private Versluys saw that Charles was not able to make a turn and to avoid a collision he braked and drove his lorrie in a ditch. Unfortunately this couldn't avoid that Charles hit the lorrie and died of wounds. He had multiple wounds and a fractured skull.
He was initially buried in Syracusa and later reburied at Agira.
Charles married Muriel Mitchell of Burgh Heath, Surrey, England. He lived in South Mountain with his parents and two brothers. Charles was in the active militia from August 1940 serving with the Cameron Highlanders and later the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders. He officially enlisted on 14 February 1941.


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Name: Gates, Charles, C E
Rank: Private
Service: C/21628
Unit Text:
Regiment: Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps
Date of Death: 20/08/1943
Age: 23
Grave Reference: A. E. 70
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Inscription: His life a beautiful memory. His death a silent grief. Wife, son and mother



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