Name
Frederick George Yates
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
05/08/1915
25
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
65392
Royal Horse Artillery
"L" Battery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ALEXANDRIA (CHATBY) MILITARY AND WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
Row J, Grave 174.
Egypt
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour, Christ Church Memorial, Watford
Pre War
Son of Arthur George [or Arthur Charles] and Hannah (nee WATTS) YATES of Watford.
His parents married 27 March 1886 at St Jude’s, Bethnal Green, London. Hannah died 1920 in Watford aged 59, and was buried 6 May in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford; Arthur died 1921 in Watford aged 61, and was buried 23 April, also in Vicarage Road Cemetery.
Frederick was born 1890 in Southwark, London [not in Barnsbury, N London or Blackfriars].
On the 1891 Census, aged 1 he lived in Islington, London, with his parents and three siblings. On the 1901 Census, aged 11 he lived in Harrow on the Hill, Middx, with his parents and six siblings . On the 1911 Census, he was possibly a gunner in the Royal Garrison Artillery aged 20, stationed in Colaba, Bombay, India.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in London; was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914 Star medals, his qualifying date being 15 August 1914, and died at 119 General Hospital, Alexandria, of dysentery. Unfortunately, Frederick’s Service Record appears to be one that di
Additional Information
There is an article about Frederick in the Watford Illustrated dated 4 September 1915.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
