Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-19

Bateman, Hugh, born Liverpool, resident Catford, enlisted Fulham, 740218, A/Sgt., died at home, 3 Aug 1918.

['Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-19', Vol. 10, Part 76, Page 206, 25th (County of London) Battalion (Cyclists), pub. 1921 by His Majesty's Stationary Office]

In Memory of

Serjeant HUGH BATEMAN

740218, 25th Bn., London Regiment (Cyclists)

who died age 26 on 03 August 1918
 
Son of Horace Newland Bateman and Mary Bateman, of Sheffield, Yorks. Also served on the N.W. Frontier (India), 1917.
 
Remembered with honour Brookwood Military Cemetery, Grave Ref. XIII. C. 8B.

   
Commemorated in perpetuity by
the Commonwealth War Graves Commission

BROOKWOOD MILITARY CEMETERY is owned by the Commission and is the largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the United Kingdom , covering approximately 37 acres. In 1917, an area of land in Brookwood Cemetery (The London Necropolis) was set aside for the burial of men and women of the forces of the Commonwealth and Americans, who had died, many of battle wounds, in the London district. Brookwood Military Cemetery now contains 1,601 Commonwealth burials of the First World War

[Courtesy of Commonwealth War Graves Commission]