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=== Private Rufus Yates aged 20 === | === Private Rufus Yates aged 20 === | ||
Rufus Yates lived at Paradise, Midgley in both the 1901 and | Rufus Yates lived at Paradise, Midgley in both the 1901 and 1911 census, with his parents Harry, a Woollen Weftman and Grace and older brother Fred, a Woollen Spinner.<br> | ||
He was aged 13 and a Presser for Ready Made Clothing. He later became a Railway Clerk at Eastwood station. <br> | |||
He was shot in the head by a sniper on 3rd December 1917 and is buried in the Fifteen Ravine British Cemetery, Villers-Plouich, Nord, France, where his headstone bears the inscription: | |||
<center>'''“In God’s Keeping he is safe”'''</center><br> | |||
He’s also commemorated on the St James Roll of Honour. His story is best told from the Hebden Bridge Times: | He’s also commemorated on the St James Roll of Honour. His story is best told from the Hebden Bridge Times: | ||
LUDDENDEN CASUALTY: PTE. R. YATES KILLED. | |||
The news was received in Midgley on Monday last, with sincere regret, that Private Rufus Yates, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Yates, of Paradise, Midgley, had fallen. This was conveyed in a letter from his captain, who wrote: | |||
"I expect that you have already been informed of the death of Private R. Yates. He was one of my runners, was an excellent runner, always cheerful, and most popular with everybody. When he was killed he was firing at the advancing enemy, and fell sniped through the head. We got his body to the rear, and his grave is marked by a cross. Please accept my sincerest sympathy.<br> | |||
— G. Blackburn, captain." | |||
Pte. Yates joined up on the 11th April last, and was sent to France in July. Training with the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, he was transferred to the Worcester Regiment when he went on active service. Only 20 years of age, he was of a studious nature, and his death in the cause of his country cuts short a promising life. In civil life he was a railway clerk at Eastwood Station, and in all the railway company's examinations he had been very successful; he passed his senior clerkship examination extremely well, gaining 87 marks out of 100. He also held the Company's first course signalling certificate, and last year won the intermediate certificate and was fourth in order of merit. Had he been able to continue his studies he would, no doubt, have gained the advanced diploma this winter, for signalling was to him a most interesting study. He was a scholar at St. James's United Methodist Sunday School. His death is deplored throughout the village, and the family will have the real sympathy of their many friends. | |||
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Private Rufus Yates aged 20
Rufus Yates lived at Paradise, Midgley in both the 1901 and 1911 census, with his parents Harry, a Woollen Weftman and Grace and older brother Fred, a Woollen Spinner.
He was aged 13 and a Presser for Ready Made Clothing. He later became a Railway Clerk at Eastwood station.
He was shot in the head by a sniper on 3rd December 1917 and is buried in the Fifteen Ravine British Cemetery, Villers-Plouich, Nord, France, where his headstone bears the inscription:
He’s also commemorated on the St James Roll of Honour. His story is best told from the Hebden Bridge Times:
LUDDENDEN CASUALTY: PTE. R. YATES KILLED.
The news was received in Midgley on Monday last, with sincere regret, that Private Rufus Yates, younger son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Yates, of Paradise, Midgley, had fallen. This was conveyed in a letter from his captain, who wrote:
"I expect that you have already been informed of the death of Private R. Yates. He was one of my runners, was an excellent runner, always cheerful, and most popular with everybody. When he was killed he was firing at the advancing enemy, and fell sniped through the head. We got his body to the rear, and his grave is marked by a cross. Please accept my sincerest sympathy.
— G. Blackburn, captain."
Pte. Yates joined up on the 11th April last, and was sent to France in July. Training with the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, he was transferred to the Worcester Regiment when he went on active service. Only 20 years of age, he was of a studious nature, and his death in the cause of his country cuts short a promising life. In civil life he was a railway clerk at Eastwood Station, and in all the railway company's examinations he had been very successful; he passed his senior clerkship examination extremely well, gaining 87 marks out of 100. He also held the Company's first course signalling certificate, and last year won the intermediate certificate and was fourth in order of merit. Had he been able to continue his studies he would, no doubt, have gained the advanced diploma this winter, for signalling was to him a most interesting study. He was a scholar at St. James's United Methodist Sunday School. His death is deplored throughout the village, and the family will have the real sympathy of their many friends.