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Corporal FRANK YATES

Service Number: L/10115
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Field Artillery

149th Bde. County Palatine

Date of Death

Died 02 February 1916

Age 26 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CORBIE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Plot I. Row D. Grave 38.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Alice Gertrude Yates, of 16, Errwood Street, Newton Heath, Manchester.
  • Personal Inscription JUST WHEN HIS DAYS WERE BRIGHTEST. JUST WHEN HIS HOPES WERE BEST.

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Buried or commemorated at

CORBIE COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Somme France
Number of casualties: 249
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