Captain (46th Battalion, Saskatchewan Regiment) Reginald John Godfrey ('Reg') Bateman of Saskatoon was KIA on 3 Sept 1918 on the Drocourt-Quéant line; he was killed instantly by an enemy shell that dropped right into the battalion headquarters bunker near Dury.
Military Service-
Rank: Captain
Age: 34
Force: Army
Unit: Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
Honours/Awards: Mentioned in Despatches
--Bateman had recovered from an earlier shrapnel wound, to his right thigh, which he'd sustained a year before his death. Mentioned in despatches, he had reverted from the rank of 'Major' to 'Lieutenant' in order to join the 46th battalion at the front.
--He had enlisted as a private (74029) in the 28th Battalion at Saskaoon on the outbreak of the war.
--Son of lawyer Godfrey Bateman, LL.D., and Frances Emily Bateman of Kingstown, County Dublin, Ireland. M.A., Sen. Mod., Stewart School, Trinity College (Dublin). Professor of English, University, Saskatoon. In 1907 Reginald became the first professor of English at the new University of Saskatchewan.
--His brother, Captain Arthur Cyril BATEMAN MC also served and fell during the First World War.
Captain Reginald John Godfrey Bateman is commemorated on Page 365 of Canada's First World War Book of Remembrance. He is also remembered with honour at Saskatchewan's Virtual War Memorial.
And he is commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Captain (46th Battalion, Saskatchewan Regiment) Reginald John Godfrey ('Reg') Bateman of Saskatoon was KIA on 3 Sept 1918 on the Drocourt-Quéant line; he was killed instantly by an enemy shell that dropped right into the battalion headquarters bunker near Dury.
Military Service-
Rank: Captain
Age: 34
Force: Army
Unit: Canadian Infantry (Saskatchewan Regiment)
Honours/Awards: Mentioned in Despatches
--Bateman had recovered from an earlier shrapnel wound, to his right thigh, which he'd sustained a year before his death. Mentioned in despatches, he had reverted from the rank of 'Major' to 'Lieutenant' in order to join the 46th battalion at the front.
--He had enlisted as a private (74029) in the 28th Battalion at Saskaoon on the outbreak of the war.
--Son of lawyer Godfrey Bateman, LL.D., and Frances Emily Bateman of Kingstown, County Dublin, Ireland. M.A., Sen. Mod., Stewart School, Trinity College (Dublin). Professor of English, University, Saskatoon. In 1907 Reginald became the first professor of English at the new University of Saskatchewan.
--His brother, Captain Arthur Cyril BATEMAN MC also served and fell during the First World War.
Captain Reginald John Godfrey Bateman is commemorated on Page 365 of Canada's First World War Book of Remembrance. He is also remembered with honour at Saskatchewan's Virtual War Memorial.
And he is commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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