Mervyn Leonard Thomas YATES
Mervyn Leonard Thomas YATES
New South Wales Police Force
[alert_yellow]Regd. # 5086[/alert_yellow]
Rank: Probationary Constable – appointed 4 March 1946
Inspector – appointed 7 March 1976
Stations: ?
Service: From ?pre 4 March 1946 to ? ? ?
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World War II
Australian Imperial Force Army
Regiment: ?
Enlisted: 30 April 1941
Enlistment location: Clarence Town, NSW
Place of Enlistment: Paddington, NSW
Service # NX5674
Rank: Corporal
Embarkation: ?
Next of kin: Ruben YATES
Religion: ?
Single / Married: ?
Returned to Australia: ?
Date of Discharge: 30 December 1945
Posting at Discharge: 2/3 Pioneer Battalion
Honours & Gallantry: None for display
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Awards: ? – nil found
Born: 11 June 1921
Died on: 19 December 2009
Cause: ?
Age: 88
Funeral date: ?
Funeral location: ?
Buried at: ?
Memorial at: ?
[alert_yellow]MERVYN is NOT mentioned on the Police Wall of Remembrance[/alert_yellow] *NEED MORE INFO
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Funeral location: ?
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Mervyn is recorded in the 1979 NSW Police ‘Stud Book‘ as M.L.T. YATES, Born 11 June 1921 and having been appointed as a Probationary Constable on the 4 March 1946 which would have made him 24 at that time.
Various websites have him recorded at Mervyn Leonard Thomas YATES – born 11 June 1919 at Gunnedah, NSW, with his occupation as Police Constable. http://natalie.witt.name/genealogy/family_wade.php?indi=@I3854@
His parents being Reuben George YATES & Florence Marion BAIRSTOW.
He is reported to have married Norma Ella COLLINS on the 14 February 1948 at St Johns Church, Wagga Wagga, NSW.
NSW BDM = 5885/1948 Mervyn Leonard Thomas YATES weds Norma Ella COLLINS
Looking into the World War II Veterans, he appears as Mervyn Leonard YATES, born 11 June 1919 at Gunnedah, NSW.