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Education & Career :

Cambridge University Alumni admitted to Jesus College in October 1883. Medical Student (1889) McGill University. Doctor

"Adm. pens. (age 18) at JESUS, Oct. 1883. [Youngest] s. of Henry R. [chief Engineer of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada]. B. May 10, 1865 (of English parentage) in Montreal. School, Charterhouse. Matric. Michs. 1883; B.A. 1888. M.D., McGill University, 1893. Practised in Montreal. Demonstrator in Pathology, and Lecturer in Bacteriology at McGill. Regimental surgeon to the Victoria Rifles of Montreal, 1894-1916; Major, C.A.M.C., 1905; Lieut.-Col. and A.D.M.S., Montreal District, 1914. Norwegian Consul-General at Montreal, 1906-9. Knight of St Olaf, 1908. Married, Jan. 11, 1896, Alice Mary, only dau. of Christopher W. Bunting, of Toronto. Served in the Great War, 1914-19 (Lieut.-Col. (in France), 1915; 2nd in command of Canadian A.M.C.). Died of pneumonia, Jan. 22, 1916, in England. Brother of Arthur R. (1882). (Carthusian Worthies, 363; Canadian Medical Assoc. Journal, 1916, Vol. XLV, 151-2.)"

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

Natural causes is attributed those deaths due to causes that were not directly associated with the war. Included in this are wartime deaths resulting from, for example, theSpanish Influenza pandemic and its associated pneumonia problems and other attributions such as age and exhaustion. It also groups those who through Post Traumatic Stress committed suicide as a result of their experiences.

Detail :

Imperial Order of The Daughters of the Empire Written in 1914 by Mrs. A. W. McDougald, Hon. Organizing Secretary From: The Call To Arms, Montreal's Roll of Honour, European War, 1914 The Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire, from being to the minds of most people merely a name, has, since the outbreak of the war, become a reality, taking its place beside the Patriotic Fund organization, the Red Cross, the Soldiers Wives' League, in the patriotic work of providing comforts for the soldiers in the field and relief for their families at home. YATES wife Mrs. H. B. Yates was Regent of the Montreal Branch see http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~qcmtl-w/IODE.html the Yates Cup, a trophy awarded in the autumn of every year to the winner of the Ontario (Canada) Universities Athletics football championship. Founded by Henry Brydges Yates of McGill University and first presented in 1898, it is the oldest football trophy that has been contested continually, although it was suspended during both World Wars.

Daily Telegraph - 25th January, 1916 - "The death has occurred at Ramsgate of Lieut.-Colonel Henry Bridges Yates, of the Canadian Army Medical Corps and medical officer of the 3rd Victoria Rifles, Montreal. He was a son of Mr. Henry Yates, of Wynarden, Brantford, Canada, and lived in Montreal. At the outbreak of war he was appointed Assistant Director of Medical Supplies to the 4th Canadian Medical Division (Montreal), and went to France in May, 1915, as second in command of No. 3 Canadian General Hospital. Lieut. Colonel Yates returned to England six weeks ago, and died at a Canadian military hospital. Born in May, 1855, he married in 1896 Miss Alice Bunting, of Toronto, and leaves a widow, who is staying at Ramsgate, and two sons, one of whome is serving in the Canadian Contingent. He was a Knight of St. Olaf, Norway and Knight Grace of St. John of Jerusalem. The funeral of the gallant officer is to take place in Canada"

A document relating to his time at Granville Special Hospital, Ramsgate shows that he died of Chronic Nephritis (Kidneys), whilst on strength at the hospital.

See also: The Canadian Virtual War Memorial
See also: Jesus College, Cambridge

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Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley