Eva Bate

Eva, with her siblings Edna, Ernia, and Irene, circa 1900s, presumably in Wales

Eva Mary Bate (nee Cooke) (15 August 1903 - 20 December 1990) 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