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Ewart Connors OATES [c.1914-1944]

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Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2012-04-09 15:29
Names
Given: 
Ewart Connors
Family: 
Oates
Sex: 
Male
Status: 
Deceased
Birth
Date: 
c.1914-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Birthplace (town, state): 
Central Province
Birthplace (country): 
India
Death
Date: 
1944-06-05
Cause of death: 
Typhus

DoB from John Black's list, which gives Mr Oates's occupation in 1941 as "Merchant".

Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp
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Submitted by annpake on Tue, 2020-05-12 22:02.

UK Merchant Seamen Deaths 1939 - 1953

Ewart Connors Oates POW Born Central Province India. Mother: Mrs Gertrude Oates 65 Mosang Road Lahore. Ship SS Yat Shing. Rank 3rd Officer. Date of Death: 5 June 1944 of a tropical cerebral illness . Graved identified in Stanley Military  Cemetery Plot IV Row A Grave number 9 Letter from IWGC 12.10.1956

Andrews Cards youngest son of Mrs C D Smith Pendra Road CP aged 26 years 10 months and 5 days. [Stanley Cemetery gives dates 1914 - 1944 age 30 at death]

UK and Foreign Register

Ewart Connors "Titus" Oates 3rd officer merchant marine  Indo China Steam Navigation Company Ltd Hong Kong

His is the first name on the monument in Stanley Military Cemetery

Find a Grave

Third Officer Ewart Connors Oates Age: 26
Regiment/Service: Merchant Navy, S.S. Yat Shing (Hong Kong).
Son of R. J. W. Oates and Gertrude Oates, of Madhiya Pradesh, India.

Commonwealth War Graves 

Ewart Connors Oates age 26  Son of R J W Oates and Gertrude Oates [presumably Gertrude Oates married C D Smith]