Derek Bateman

Able Seaman Derek Arthur Bateman was an Irish sailor of the Royal Navy who died during the Second World War.
He was born the son of Reverend Thomas and M.G. Bateman, of Ardcarn, County Roscommon.
Aged 19, Bateman died on 21 August 1944, when the German U-boat U-344 torpedoed and sunk the sloop HMS Kite in the Barents Sea.
He has no knwon grave and is commemorated by the Plymouth Naval Memorial.
==References==
*Bateman, Derek Arthur, cwgc.org. Retrieved 5 October 2012.
Category:Birth Date Unknown
Category:1944 deaths
Category:Royal Navy
Category:Irish military personnel
Category:Burial Unknown
Category:Plymouth Naval Memorial
Category:Able Seamen