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Revision as of 11:03, 31 January 2026
Eva Mary Bate (nee Cooke) was the eldest daughter of John Cooke and Rose Cooke.
She married a Mr. Bate, and she had two sons:
- Thomas Murrin Bate (3 August 1934 - 2 August 1989), who married Diane Mary Paulley and died one day before his 55th birthday.
- Arthur John "Jack" Bate (2 August 1923 - 6 November 1944). Jack was a Flight Officer and bomb aimer with the 101st Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), shot down over Germany 6 November 1944.
Jack was a fighter pilot [actually, a bomb aimer on a heavy bomber] and was shot down and killed in 1944 (age 21). I don't know how his body was recovered but he is buried in France.
— Bill Currie, email to Michael Currie, 7 June 2014
Jack's name is memorialized at the Memorial Park Circle Cenotaph [1] in Winnipeg.
Sources
[1] http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/parkcirclecenotaph.shtml
[2] https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2036793