Geburtsdatum | Freitag, 03. Januar 1913 |
Geburtsort | County Durham, England |
Todesdatum | Samstag, 14. Februar 1998 |
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Beschreibung | Philip William Yates GC (3 January 1913 – 14 February 1998) was an English recipient of the Edward Medal, later exchanged for a George Cross, awarded for gallantry in the 1931 Bentley Colliery Disaster in Yorkshire. Philip William Yates was born in County Durham on 3 January 1913. He left Counden Church School in Bishop Auckland at the age of 13 to work as an undertaker's assistant, in 1927 he became a coal miner. |