GATES, Leonard Frederick John

Credit: CWGC

Bombardier

90 Field Regiment

Royal Artillery

Leonard was born on the 27th of August 1918 in Newport to Frederick Charles & Jessie (nee LOCKYER) GATES. He married Evaline Mary PETTIFER in Dover, Kent in 1942.

Leonard was reported as Killed in Action on the 6th of June 1944, aged 26, & was originally buried close to where he fell at Asnelles-sur-Mer. Leonard’s body was exhumed & reburied in the Bayeux War Cemetery on the 14th of November 1944 & beneath a Commission Headstone, bearing the Family Inscription: “HIS DUTY WELL DONE”. He lies at rest alongside 4,143 of his Second World War comrades, 338 of them are still to be identified.

Leonard is also remembered on the Carisbrooke Memorial.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.