Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

Natural causes is attributed those deaths due to causes that were not directly associated with the war. Included in this are wartime deaths resulting from, for example, theSpanish Influenza pandemic and its associated pneumonia problems and other attributions such as age and exhaustion. It also groups those who through Post Traumatic Stress committed suicide as a result of their experiences.

Detail :

Attested for services on the 22nd November, 1915 and became 1386 Private John George Pate, Army Service Corps (Motor Transport) in the Army Reserve. by the 3rd March, 1916 he had transferred to become a Sapper of the Royal Engineers, completing the process by 16th December, 1916. At the time of his death he was part of the 66th Battalion, Training Reserve as TR4/37022. He did not serve abroad.

On the 31st January, 1917 according to his military record, he died at Fazackerley Hospital.

ProbatePATE John George of Willow Bank House Priory-road Anfield Liverpool sapper Royal Engineers died 31 January 1917 at the City Hospital Fazakerley Liverpool Probate Liverpool 25 February to Lily Alexandrina Pate widow. Effects £364.

He is buried at a grave in Liverpool Cemetery 10.340.

Masonic :

John was a 30 year old Licensed Victualler, residing in Anfield at the time of his initiation in 1911. In the 1921 book, his initials are reversed to G.J. The contribution record shows that he "Resd 31st Jan 1917," but he actually died at Fazackerley Hospital on that date. Steward

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley