Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private W. M. Yates, 38th Canadian Infantry and 4th Battalion, Canadian Machine Gun Corps, who was killed in action on 8 August 1918

British War and Victory Medals (725001 Pte., 38-Can. Inf.), with related Memorial Plaque (William Michael Yates) and Canadian Memorial Cross, G.V.R., the reverse officially inscribed, ‘725001 Pte. W. M. Yates’, nearly extremely fine (4) £250-300

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to Great War Casualties formed by Tim Parsons.

View
Collection

William Michael Yates, who was born in Liverpool in June 1891, enlisted in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force in December 1915.

Posted to the 38th Battalion, Canadian Infantry on his arrival in France, he was wounded by a gunshot in the left thigh in April 1917 and was evacuated to England. Returning to active duty, he was posted to the 4th Battalion, Canadian Machine Gun Corps and was killed in action on 8 August 1918.

He was interred in the British Cemetery at Caix; photographs of his headstone are included.