YATES, Arthur William
| Service Number: | 1030 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 September 1914, Sydney, New South Wales |
| Last Rank: | Driver |
| Last Unit: | 4th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Salisbury, England, 2 December 1868 |
| Home Town: | Redfern, City of Sydney, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Engineer |
| Died: | Natural causes, Kyogle, New South Wales, 29 October 1951, aged 82 years |
| Cemetery: |
Kyogle Cemetery, New South Wales |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 5 Sep 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1030, Sydney, New South Wales | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Driver, 1030, 4th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Driver, 1030, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Sydney | |
| 16 Oct 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Driver, 1030, 4th Infantry Battalion, Enteric fever |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Dianne Parker
Arthur William Yates went to the United States of America and Canada as a teenager and from there to South Africa. He settled in South Africa and at the outbreak of the Boer War served in the Duke Of Edinburgh Rifles and also in the Bechuanaland Campaign and the South African War. He came to Australia and enlisted in the AIF just after the outbreak of war on September 5th 1914. He was hospitalised in Alexandria in October 1915 and sent to England for further treatment for a hip trauma before being sent back to Australia in May 1916.
On the outbreak of the second World War in 1939 he served as the District Recruitment Officer in Kyogle NSW.
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