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Personal info

Full name
YATES, Harry
Date of birth
1916
Age
unknown
Place of birth
Kentucky
Hometown
Wayne County, West Virginia

Military service

Service number
15058146
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
10th Infantry Regiment,
5th Infantry Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
17 September 1944
Place of death
In the vicinity of Arnaville, FRance

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 10 46

Immediate family

Members
Judson Yates (father)
Mary M. (Church) Yates (mother)
Wille H. Yates (brother)
Ada J. Yates (sister)
Clara Yates (sister)
Della R. Yates (sister)

More information

Pfc Harry Yates was a miner before he joined the Regular Army at Ft Thomas Newport, Kentucky on 15 October 1940.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of St. James, France.

Source of information: Leo Minne, www.abmc.gov, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com – 1910/1920 Census / U.S. Headstone and Interment Record for U.S. Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil 1942-1949 , A footsoldier for Patton / Michael C. Bilder James G. Bilder, The 5th Infantry Division in the ETO

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