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Major Charles Allix Lavington "Cal" Yate VC
British Army 2nd Btn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
(d.20th Sep 1914)
Cal Yates died in a POW camp on 20th Sep 1914, Age: 42 and is buried in the Berlin South Western Cemetery in Germany. He was the son of the Rev. George Edward Yate, Vicar of Madeley, Shropshire and Prebendary of Hereford; husband of Florence Helena. He had served in the South African War.
An extract from The London Gazette, No. 28985, dated 25th Nov., 1914, records the following:- "Commanded one of the two Companies that remained to the end in the trenches at Le Cateau on 26th August, and, when all other officers were killed or wounded and ammunition exhausted, led his nineteen survivors against the enemy in a charge in which he was severely wounded. He was picked up by the enemy and has subsequently died as a prisoner of war."
