YATES, Herbert George
| Service Number: | NX37271 |
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| Enlisted: | 25 June 1941 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 3 Ordnance Vehicle Park |
| Born: | Taree, New South Wales, 17 November 1921 |
| Home Town: | Kyogle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Natural causes, Brisbane Queensland Australia, 21 January 2014, aged 92 years |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 2 Service
| 25 Jun 1941: | Enlisted Private, NX37271, Paddington, New South Wales | |
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| 25 Jun 1941: | Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX37271 | |
| 23 Nov 1944: | Transferred Private, 2nd/1st Medium Regiment | |
| 21 Nov 1945: | Discharged Private, 3 Ordnance Vehicle Park | |
| 21 Nov 1945: | Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX37271 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Dianne Parker
Herb Yates was employed in the Veneer factory in Kyogle when War was declared. In early 1940 he went into camp at Armidale with the 15th Light Horse Regiment. After training most of the young men in training joined the 2/1 Pioneer Battalion of the 2nd AIF. They trained on weekends and he was Trooper H G Yates N1949. He applied to the Airforce and was accepted but his mother refused to allow him to go and he subsequently travelled to Sydney with his brother Tom, where they were sent to the Artillery after he enlisted on 7th June 1941. He served in the Middle East and on his return, in Australia on the Atherton Tablelands and Darling Downs before returning to Sydney for discharge at the 3rd Australian Ordinance Vehicle Park in North Ryde on 9th November 1945.
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