Roy Gater (22 June 1940 – 1 May 2017) was an English footballer who played for Port Vale, Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic, Crewe Alexandra, Weymouth, Dorchester Town and Christchurch.
Gater passed through the Port Vale youth team to sign professional forms under Norman Low in April 1960.
[1] He was sold to Bill McGarry's Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic for a "small fee" in June 1962.
The "Railwaymen" then finished bottom of the Football League in 1971–72, before Jimmy Melia failed to lead them out of the re-election zone in 1972–73.
He moved on to Southern League side Weymouth, Dorchester Town and Christchurch (as player-manager).