accompanying citation for the decoration was published in supplement to the London Gazette on 2 November 1945, reading His Victoria Cross is displayed at The Royal Norfolk Regiment Museum, Norwich, England. The museum trustees purchased it for £20,000 in the 1980s. His was one of five VCs won by members of the Royal Norfolk Regiment during the Second World War. Although the VC citation gives the hamlet Sourdeval as the location (not to be confused with the market town of Sourdeval about away), it is actually at Pavée. There is a fitting memorial to Bates at Pavée. Grave The grave of Sidney Bates can be found in the Bayeux Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, Calvados, France. (Reference 20E) References British VCs of World War 2 (John Laffin, 1997) Monuments to Courage (David Harvey, 1999) The Register of the Victoria Cross (This England, 1997) 1921 births 1944 deaths British Army recipients of the Victoria Cross British Army personnel killed in World War II British World War II recipients of the Victoria Cross People from Camberwell Royal Norfolk Regiment soldiers Burials at Bayeux war cemetery Military personnel from London British Battle of Normandy recipients of the Victoria Cross