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Commemorated on the Athens Cenotaph.
Commemorated on the Phillips Electrical Works Limited Second World War Roll of Honour.
Digital gallery of Captain Leslie Mahlon Yates
Digital gallery of
Captain Leslie Mahlon Yates
Entrance - Moro River Canadian War Cemetery - May 2013 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Captain Leslie Mahlon Yates
Moro River Canadian War Cemetery - May 2013 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Captain Leslie Mahlon Yates
Grave marker - Moro River Canadian War Cemetery - May 2013 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Captain Leslie Mahlon Yates
Leslie Mahlon Yates born Aug. 11, 1919, Leslie was promoted to Captain in 1942 under the Brockville Rifles. He was a member of reserve unit of Brockville Rifles. At that time he was recommended for a commission and graduated from the Officers Training Centre in Brockville following his graduation from Camp Borden he was attached to the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders. When the Brockville Rifles mobilized he transferred to his home unit and was stationed on the west coast for several months Nanaimo and Prince George B.C. Early in 1942 he volunteered for overseas duty and joined a reinforcement unit and arrived in England in Feb. 1943 and was posted to Hasting and Prince Edward Regement of Picton, Ontario. It was with that unit he went to Sicily. He was wounded Dec. 6, 1943 and died Dec. 7, 1943
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Entrance - Moro River Canadian War Cemetery - May 2013 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Moro River Canadian War Cemetery - May 2013 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Grave marker - Moro River Canadian War Cemetery - May 2013 … Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Leslie Mahlon Yates born Aug. 11, 1919, Leslie was promoted to Captain in 1942 under the Brockville Rifles. He was a member of reserve unit of Brockville Rifles. At that time he was recommended for a commission and graduated from the Officers Training Centre in Brockville following his graduation from Camp Borden he was attached to the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders. When the Brockville Rifles mobilized he transferred to his home unit and was stationed on the west coast for several months Nanaimo and Prince George B.C. Early in 1942 he volunteered for overseas duty and joined a reinforcement unit and arrived in England in Feb. 1943 and was posted to Hasting and Prince Edward Regement of Picton, Ontario. It was with that unit he went to Sicily. He was wounded Dec. 6, 1943 and died Dec. 7, 1943
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 228 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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MORO RIVER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Italy
By the winter of 1943, the German armies in Italy were defending a line stretching from the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Naples, to the Adriatic Sea south of Ortona. The Allies prepared to break through this line to capture Rome. For its part, the 1st Canadian Infantry Division was to cross the Moro River and take Ortona. In January 1944 the Canadian Corps selected this site, intending that it would contain the graves of those who died during the Ortona battle and in the fighting in the weeks before and after it. Today, there are 1,615 graves in the cemetery, of which over 50 are unidentified and 1,375 are Canadian.
The Moro River Canadian War Cemetery lies in the locality of San Donato in the Commune of Ortona, Province of Chieti, and is sited on high ground near the sea just east of the main Adriatic coast road (SS16). The cemetery can be reached from Rome on the autostrada A25 (Rome-Pescara) by branching on the autostrada A14 and leaving it at Ortona. The approach road to the cemetery from the main road passes under an arch forming part of the little church of San Donato. The cemetery is permanently open and may be visited anytime.
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