TATE John Nicholas Bailey

  • First Name(s):
    John 
    Nicholas 
    Bailey 
  • Surname:
    TATE
  • Service Number:
    912606
  • Rank:

    Sergeant/Pilot

  • Conflict:
    WW2
  • Service:
    Air Force
  • Air Force:
    Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
  • Air Force Unit:
    83 Squadron
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    25th July 1941
  • Age At Death:
    22
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Schiermonnikoog (Vredenhof) Cemetery, Netherlands, Grave 55.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Thomas Bailey Tate, C.S.I., and Decima Tate, of Alnmouth, Northumberland

Remember The Fallen - Lest We Forget

TATE John Nicholas Bailey Is Named On These Memorials

Malvern College WW2 Memorial

Further Information About TATE John Nicholas Bailey

John Tate was born in 1919. He attended Malvern College in House 6 from 1932 to 1937.

John Tate was the navigator and one of four crew who were on Hampden AD835 which took off from RAF Scampton at 22.05 on 25th July 1941 on a mission to Hanover, Germany. The aircraft came under attack from a German night-fighter just off the coast of Schiermonnikoog resulting in the death of the radio operator, Sergeant Edwin Marsden, and the Air Gunner, Sergeant Frank Ireson. The pilot, Sergeant P.H. Draper, and John Tate baled out of the stricken aircraft. Sergeant Draper landed on the beach and became a prisoner of war. John Tate was believed to have been carried out to sea by the wind; his body was later washed up on the shore and he was buried in the nearby cemetery.

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