Name of ‘Victor Howard Gates’, date and place of birth and death, date and place of marriage, place of burial, from research file04 in June 2017.

Preferred name of ‘Vic’, name of wife ‘Margaret Noela Gates, nee Lukies’, from billiongraves.com website for Greytown Cemetery. Also name of children:
- Yvonne
- Lorna
- Ian

From the 1946 Wairarapa Electoral Roll:
Gates, Victor Howard, Greytown, farm hand

From the 1949 Wairarapa Electoral Roll:
Gates, Victor Howard, Greytown, farm hand
Gates, Margaret Noela, Fabians Road, Greytown, married

Result from birth search on New Zealand BDM website in May 2021:
1920/1464. Gates, Victor Howard. Mother: Sarah Selina. Father: Ernest Lewes

Full date of birth of 20 April 1920 confirmed from further searching in May 2021 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the birth.

No record of marriage could be found on the New Zealand BDM website as at May 2021.