Notes
All additional information and this short biography are supplied thanks to the research of the Blackpool Grammar School Old Boys: 'He attended Devonshire Road Primary School, and was at Blackpool Grammar School from 1931 to 1939. He lived in Granville Road, and was the son of George E and Ernestina Bateman. He gained a place at Liverpool University to study architecture, but like many of his fellow pupils, George joined the RAF as a reservist and became a Sergeant (No 1104340) in No 40 Squadron flying Wellington 1Cs out of RAF Alconbury. He was killed on Monday 13th October 1941, aged 21, just two weeks before the Squadron was due to leave for Malta, and is buried in Kollumerland (Westergeest) Protestant Churchyard in the Netherlands.'