Harold Stanley YATES

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YATES, Harold Stanley

Service Number:	781
Enlisted:	20 January 1915, Enlisted at Melbourne
Last Rank:	Corporal
Last Unit:	21st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 1890
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Dana Street State School, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Store Hand
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 31 July 1916
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

World War 1 Service

20 Jan 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 781, Enlisted at Melbourne
10 May 1915:	Involvement Private, 781, 24th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '13' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: ''
10 May 1915:	Embarked Private, 781, 24th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne
31 Jul 1916:	Involvement Corporal, 781, 21st Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 781 awm_unit: 21st Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1916-07-31

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Biography contributed by Carol Foster

16 November 1915 - To hospital - Influenza

22 November 1915 - Returned to duty

7 January 1916 - Disembarked at Alexandria

19 March 1916 - Proceeded to join BEF

26 March 1916 = Disembarked at Marseiles

6 July 1916 - Promoted to Corporal

Medals: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Vicctory Medal

Biography contributed by Stephen Brooks

One of four brothers who served abroad, whilst a fifth enlisted but did not embark from Australia. One of his brothers, No.290 2nd Lieutenant Arthur William Yates, A Company 22nd Infantry Battalion, died of wounds received at Pozieres, France on 7 August 1916, less than a week after Harold was killed.

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