Herbert George YATES

YATES, Herbert George

Service Number: NX37271
Enlisted: 25 June 1941
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 3 Ordnance Vehicle Park
Born: Taree, New South Wales, 17 November 1921
Home Town: Kyogle, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Natural causes, Brisbane Queensland Australia, 21 January 2014, aged 92 years
Cemetery: Not yet discovered
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World War 2 Service

25 Jun 1941: Enlisted Private, NX37271, Paddington, New South Wales
25 Jun 1941: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX37271
23 Nov 1944: Transferred Private, 2nd/1st Medium Regiment
21 Nov 1945: Discharged Private, 3 Ordnance Vehicle Park
21 Nov 1945: Discharged Australian Military Forces (Army WW2), Private, NX37271

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Biography contributed by Dianne Parker

Herb Yates was employed in the Veneer factory in Kyogle when War was declared. In early 1940 he went into camp at Armidale with the 15th Light Horse Regiment.  After training most of the young men in training joined the 2/1 Pioneer Battalion of the 2nd AIF. They trained on weekends and he was Trooper H G Yates N1949. He applied to the Airforce and was accepted but his mother refused to allow him to go and he subsequently travelled to Sydney with his brother Tom, where they were sent to the Artillery after he enlisted on 7th June 1941.  He served in the Middle East and on his return, in Australia on the Atherton Tablelands and Darling Downs before returning to Sydney for discharge at the 3rd Australian Ordinance Vehicle Park in North Ryde on 9th November 1945.

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