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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 325

(x) Three: Lance-Corporal A. Yates, King's Royal Rifle Corps, who died of wounds in October 1917

1914-15 Star (R-4715 Pte. A. Yates, K.R. Rif. C.); British War and Victory Medals (R-4715 Pte. A. Yates, K.R. Rif. C.), good very fine (3)

Albert Yates was born at Arnold, Nottinghamshire, the son of Jonathan and Maria Yates. Enlisting in the King's Royal Rifle Corps at Nottingham, he went to France as a Lance-Corporal in the 13th Battalion and died of wounds on 4 October 1917. On that date, the Battalion was tasked with demolishing a group of enemy buildings called 'Lewis House'. A force of 38 other ranks was drawn from 'B' Company, under 2nd Lieutenant Cairns, together with a section of engineers under 2nd Lieutenant Thompson. The task proved beyond their powers, for the wire was found to be intact and our barrage failed to check enemy rifle and machine-gun fire. 2nd Lieutenant Cairns was killed and 34 out of the 38 other ranks became casualties. Yates is buried in the Tyne Cot Cemetery, Passchendaele.

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