The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private T Yates

Photograph by "Pearlady"

Private Thomas Lester YATES, G/1939, "D" Company, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 8th July 1917.

Born Northfleet, Gravesend, Kent, son of George Yates, 16 College Street, Northfleet, Kent.

1911 Census - 20 College Road, Northfleet, Kent - George Yates, head, age 59, widower, married 37 years, 11 children, 9 still alive, cement labourer, A.V.C.M. worker, born Chadwell St Marys, Essex; Thomas Lester Yates, son, age 18, single, packer in paper mill, worker, born Northfleet, Kent; Hilda Lucy Selina Yates, daughter, age 14, school, born Northfleet, Kent; Albert Edward Yates, son, age 13, school, newsboy, Smith & Sons, worker, born Northfleet, Kent.

Enlisted Gravesend, Kent.

26th July 1915, posted BEF.

Grantee - Annie E Gooda.

Buried at Dickebusch New Military Cemetery Extension, II. C. 19., Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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