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Gunner JOSEPH YATES

Service Number: 76880
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Garrison Artillery

150th Heavy Bty.

Date of Death

Died 22 December 1917

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MENIN ROAD SOUTH MILITARY CEMETERY

III. O. 5.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Medal
  • Additional Info Son of John Thomas and Sarah Jane Yates; husband of Sarah Ellen Yates, of 7, Manchester Rd., Kearsley, Famworth, Lancs.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED AS HE LIVED WITH CHRIST AS HIS FRIEND
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Buried or commemorated at

MENIN ROAD SOUTH MILITARY CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 1658
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