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Regiment: 4th Gurkhas (I.A.).
Died: 20 December 1914 aged 36 in France. Killed in action at Festubert.
Cemetery: Neuve-Chapelle Memorial P 25/27
Son of Brevet Lt. Col. Henry Attenberrow Yates (3rd Madras Cavalry), and his wife Sophia Louisa Tertia Phillips, 7 Prestonville Road, Brighton, b. 1878.
Army Side. House Scholar. House XI Cricket and Football.
R.M.C. Sandhurst; Indian Army 1897; Captain (4th Gurkhas) 1906.
Great War. "E" Coy. 1st Bn. 4th Gurkha Rifles
'R. C. B. Yates was one of the earliest boys in No. 7 soon after it was started. He was a House Scholar. Though not prominent as an athlete, he was a member of the House Cricket and Football teams. He was on the Army Side and eventually joined the Indian Army in 1897. He was reported "missing" after action on Dec. 20th, 1914, and is now reported "killed".' (Malvernian, Nov 1916).
'Festubert. Dec 20th. At 9.30am we were informed that the Germans had broken the line in two places, and we ordered to march straight to Givenchy, and take up a line along the Festubert-PontFixe road. The trenches were full of mud and water with the Gurkhas up to their armpits.' (Unit War Diary).
Unit War Diary:WO 95/3929/4