Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Officer’s Steward First Class C. H. Yeates, Royal Navy, who was killed in action when H.M.S. Hampshire struck a mine and sank off the Orkneys, 5 June 1916

1914-15 Star (L.8389 C. H. Yeates. O.S.3, R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (L.6389 C. H. Yeates. O.S.1 R.N.) good very fine (3) £180-£220

Charles Henry Yeates was born in Bognor, Sussex, on 8 May 1891, and joined the Royal Navy as a Officer’s Steward Third Class on 1 March 1915. Posted to H.M.S. Hampshire on 25 March of that year, he was advanced Officer’s Steward First Class on 15 February 1916, and was killed in action when the Hampshire, conveying Field Marshal Lord Kitchener on a diplomatic mission to Russia, struck a German-mine off the Orkneys on 5 June 1916, and sank within 15 minutes with the loss of 737 lives. There were only 12 survivors. Yeates is buried in Lyness Royal Naval Cemetery, Orkney.

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