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Military service
Service number:
R/224482
Age:
20
Rank:
Flight Sergeant
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
614 Sqdn.
Birth:
August 2, 1924
Montréal, Québec
Death:
August 22, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 16, Column 2.
Additional information
Son of Oswald Stuart Yates and Elizabeth Yates, of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Brother of Joan, James, William and Richard. His sister Joan de Cotret shared her memories of her brother. 'Norman was a good tennis player - won Junior Tennis Championship - loved country living - enjoyed all sports: skiing, tennis, swimming. He went to D'Arcy McGee High School in Montreal. As a young man, we lived in St. Eustache sur-le-Lac, Quebec (now known as Deux Montagnes, Quebec) and although well populated during the summer it was quite lovely in winter. He loved his family dearly and he and and I were very close as we shared a large group of friends, both male and female. I sometimes tagged along too much and he would give me his warm gloves while skiing when my fingers were cold and icy. He was said to have done the most sit-ups during an exercise at the Lachine Depot. Flight Sergeant Yates shares a gravemarker with his grandfather and grandmother, Mr. William and Elizabeth Crowder, grave number 9A1649 at Cote des Neiges Cemetery, Montreal, Quebec.'
Additional citations
1939-45 Star, Italy Star, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, War Medal 1939-45
Digital gallery of Flight Sergeant Norman Stuart Yates
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Photo of Norman Stuart Yates
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Norman and his dog
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Letter p1
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Letter p2
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Attestation paper
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Document
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Photo of NORMAN STUART YATES
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Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Norman Stuart Yates
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Norman Stuart Yates
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Norman Stuart Yates
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Norman Stuart Yates
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Norman Stuart Yates
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Norman Stuart Yates
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Norman Stuart Yates
Digital gallery of
Flight Sergeant Norman Stuart Yates
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 484 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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