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Albert Yeates

Rank: 
Corporal
Regimental number: 
322987
Unit at enlistment: 
12th Brigade C.F.A., 54th Battery
Force: 
C.E.F.
Volunteered or conscripted: 
Volunteered
Survived the war: 
Yes
Cemetery: 
Farringdon Cemetery, Brantford, Ontario
Commemorated at: 
Colborne Street Methodist Church
Birth country: 
Canada
Birth county: 
Brant
Birth city: 
Brantford, Ontario
Address at enlistment: 
218 Chatham Street, Brantford, Ontario
Next of kin address: 
218 Chatham Street, Brantford, Ontario
Trade or calling: 
Bricklayer
Employer: 
Massey-Harris Co.
Religious denominations: 
Methodist
Marital status: 
Married
Age at enlistment: 
36

Letters and documents

BX May 18, 1917

Corporal Albert Yeates, artillery, is today reported seriously wounded. The telegram received by his wife, Mrs. Margaret Yeates, 218 Chatham Street, states that he has been admitted to No. 13 General Hospital at Boulogne suffering from wounds in the back and arm. He was a bricklayer by trade and has a family and two children.

BX January 15, 1918

Veterans Returning

A contingent of 152 returned men is expected to arrive at North Toronto Station tomorrow night and among the contingent are several Brantford men, including the following: Pte. A. Butler, 127 Chestnut Avenue; Pte. H.J. Hall, 275 Brant Avenue; Sapper H.E. Harris, 151 St. Paul Avenue; Pte. H. Jackson, 36 North Park Street, care Grandview; Pte. J.H. Liddell, 66 Cayuga Street; Pte. E.W. Pattison, 98 Oxford Street, Corp. A. Yeates

BX January 17, 1918

Three Veterans Came Home Last Evening

Three returned soldiers arrived home last night at 10.30 on the Brantford and Hamilton radial and were welcomed by Secretary MacDonald of the Soldiers’ Aid Commission and Secretary Cornelius of the G.W.V.A. A bigger deputation including the mayor and Mr. J.S. Dowling, awaited the 9.30 car, but it was an hour later before the soldiers got here. The three who arrived included H.E. Harris, 151 St. Paul’s Avenue; E. Pattison, 86 Oxford Street, who lost his right arm, and Lance-Corp. Isaac, 140 Alfred Street, who lost his right leg. Taxis were provided to take the soldiers home.

Others expected to arrive today are Pte. Butler, 137 Chestnut Avenue; H.J. Hall, 275 Brant Avenue, H. Jackson, 59 North Park Street; J.H. Liddell, 66 Cayuga Street and Corp. A. Yeates, corner Chatham and Murray Street.

BX August 26, 1942

Albert Yeates

The death occurred suddenly this morning of Albert Yeates, 149 Brock Street, in his sixty-second year.  Mr. Yeates was a well-known baseball player in the City, having been a member of the famous Eagle Place Stars.  For the past forty years he had been an Odd Fellow and was a member of Gore Lodge.  He was also a mason, a member of Speed Lodge, Guelph.  Deceased was a veteran of the Great War, having served with the 54th Battery.  He was wounded in France.  A devout member of Colborne Street United Church, Mr. Yeates was a member of the Bricklayers’ Union for 45 years.  He leaves to mourn his loss his widow, the former Margaret Cheevers, his daughters, Miss Beatty Yeates, at home, and Mrs. Al Chandler, Brantford, his son, Charles M. Yeates, Brantford, his sisters, Lucy, Rose and Mary, all of Guelph, and Mrs. Ann Carley, Brantford and his  brother, Charles, Guelph.  The funeral will be conducted Saturday afternoon from his residence to Farringdon Burial Ground, where interment will take place.

BX August 31, 1942

Albert Yeates

Funeral services were conducted Saturday afternoon for Albert Yeates, 149 Brock Street, a veteran of the First Great War.  Rev. B.L. Oaten Minister of Colborne Street United Church officiated, assisted by Rev. H.A. Graham.  At the service at the home Mr. Frank Elliott sang “I Walked in the Garden Alone,” a favorite him of the deceased.  At the interment service in Farringdon Cemetery, the last rites of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which Mr. Yeates had been a member for more than forty years, we e observed.  There was a great profusion of flowers and the many friends in attendance testified to the esteem in which Mr. Yeates was held.  The pallbearer’s members of the 54th Battery, C.E.F. with whom Mr. Yeates served in France, were Percy Banner, Sam Sherred, W. Neil, J. Emmett, G. Dean and Fred Myring.  The flower bearer’s members of the Bricklayers’ Union were Harry Blacker, Roy Blacker, Fred Knight, Harry Fitness, Walter Johnson and Dave McDonald.

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