Private Alfred Yates

Army Number: 201308 formerly 4032

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Son of Arthur And E. Yates, of 7, Colliery Row, Church Gresley, Burton-On-Trent. Killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 21, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.