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Auction: 21003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 350

Four: Private H. Yates, 18th Battalion, The King's (Liverpool) Regiment, who was killed in action on the First Day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916

1914-15 Star (16431 Pte. H. Yates. L'Pool R.); British War and Victory Medals (16431 Pte. H. Yates L'Pool R.); Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Harold Yates), nearly extremely fine (4)

Harold Yates, son of Issac and Clara Yates, of 92 Rice Lane, Walton, was born in 1894 and served in France from 7 November 1915. The Liverpools went 'over the top' on 1 July 1916, when part of 21st Brigade, 30th Division, on the extreme right of the British line. They were to attack from assembly trenches to the east of Talus Boise, a jutting finger of woodland pointing towards German trenches below the south-east corner of the fortified village of Montauban, with objectives of the Silesia Trench and Glatz Redoubt. Yates and his comrades had to cross 500 yards of no-mans land. The 30th Division front was defended by 6 Bayerische Reserve Infanterie-Regiment from Amberg. The objective was taken at heavy cost for, by 3 July, the Battalion numbered just six Officers and 288 other ranks. Yates was killed in action and is buried in the Dantzig Alley Cemetery; sold together with a postcard of the recipient, besides copied research.

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£1,200

Starting price
£320