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Military service
Service number:
42616
Age:
23
Rank:
Bombardier
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Field Artillery
Division:
3rd Bde.
Birth:
April 2, 1892
Toronto, Ontario
Enlistment:
September 22, 1914
Valcartier, Québec
Death:
December 5, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. D. 4.
Additional information
Son of James A. and Annie Yates of 902, Manning Avenue, Toronto, Ontario.
Brother of Private Clifford Franklin Yates, who died on April 22, 1915, while serving with the Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment).
Digital gallery of Bombardier James Ashley Yates
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of JAMES ASHLEY YATES
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram May 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram June 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram December 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram December 1914. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Grave marker
Headstone of Bdr. J.A. Yates, 3 Bde. CFA, St. Quentin Cabaret Military Cemetery, Belgium -
Souvenir silk handkerchief
Souvenir silk handkerchief sent home from Bdr. J.A. Yates, 3 Bde. CFA prior to his death in 1915. -
Wartime diary
A page from the War Dairy of the 3rd Bde. CFA relating the details of Bdr. J.A. Yates death.
Digital gallery of
Bombardier James Ashley Yates
Digital gallery of
Bombardier James Ashley Yates
Digital gallery of
Bombardier James Ashley Yates
Digital gallery of
Bombardier James Ashley Yates
Digital gallery of
Bombardier James Ashley Yates
Digital gallery of
Bombardier James Ashley Yates
Digital gallery of
Bombardier James Ashley Yates
Digital gallery of
Bombardier James Ashley Yates
Digital gallery of
Bombardier James Ashley Yates
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 42 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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