Lieutenant Charles Cecil YATES (1897)

9th (Service) Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
Born 1880 in Chorlton, Lancashire
Killed in action 15 May 1916, aged 36
Buried at Écoivres Military Cemetery, Mont-Saint-Éloi, Pas-de-Calais, France. Commemorated on memorials in Temple Church, London, and Reigate and Banstead Town Hall.

Charles Yates was the second son of Michael Lavery Yates and Mary Ann, née Livsey, of River Dale, Didsbury, Manchester.

He enlisted in November 1914, and served in France and Belgium.

He was killed in action at Vimy Ridge, on 15 May 1916.