[1] Bateman volunteered for the Royal Field Artillery.
[2][3] During World War I, he served as a gunner and signaller in the Somme-Thiepval and Beaumont-Hamel area during April to November 1916 and was hospitalised subsequently.
Bateman was a member of the Fylingdales Group of Artists in Yorkshire.
[4] His work is in the collection of the Scarborough Art Gallery.
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