David Peel Yates
Sir David Peel Yates | |
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| Born | 10 July 1911 Officer of the Order of the British Empire |
Second World War and reached high office during the 1960s.[1]
Early life and education
Peel Yates was the son of Hubert Peel Yates and the brother of Captain Colin Peel Yates of the Royal Navy. He was educated at Haileybury College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst.[1]
Military career
Yates was
North West Frontier of India in 1937 before becoming adjutant of the 1st Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment, a Territorial Army unit, in 1939.[2]
Yates served in the
Second World War, initially as brigade major of the 113th Infantry Brigade in 1940.[2] He then went to the Staff College, Camberley, before becoming brigade major of the 204th Independent Infantry Brigade (Home) in 1941.[2] He served as a general staff officer with the 4th Division and then at First Army Headquarters.[2] He was involved in the fall of Tunis in May 1943.[2] He was appointed commanding officer of the 6th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment, which was deployed to the Italian Front in 1943 before he returned to the 4th Division later that year.[2] He was a brigadier on the General Staff of General Sir Harold Alexander at Allied Force Headquarters in Italy in 1945.[2]
After the war, Peel Yates became an instructor at the
Commandant of the British Sector in Berlin in 1962.[2] During the visit of John F. Kennedy to West Berlin in June 1963, Yates explained to the U.S. president the Cold War topography of the city, marked by the Berlin Wall, while both were standing on an observation platform facing the Brandenburg Gate.[3] He was General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) for Eastern Command from 1966 to 1968, when he became GOC-in-C for Southern Command. He retired in 1969.[2]
Family
In 1947, Yates married Christine Hilary Williams, daughter of
Horatio Stanley Williams; they had a son and a daughter.[1]
