Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria including the collection to Naval Artificers formed by JH Deacon

Four: Captain D. H. P. Yates, Indian Army

British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Lieut., 1/94/Infy.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (Lieut.), mounted as worn, first with slight edge bruise, very fine and better (4) £120-140

Lieutenant Derek Harold Peel Yates was born in 1897 and was commissioned into the Indian Army in 1917. Promoted Lieutenant in June 1918, he was Acting Captain during March-August 1918 and again during June-October 1919. During the Great War he served in operations against the Mahsuds, June-August 1917 and in Mesopotamia, January-June 1918. He attained the rank of Captain in 1921.