DAMBUSTERS Yates, Roberton Bertrand

[John Robertson]

• SURNAME

Yates ​

• FORENAME

Roberton Bertrand ​

• UNIT

617 Squadron,R.A.F.V.R. ​

• RANK

Flying Officer ​

• NUMBER

171019 ​

• DATE OF DEATH

22nd December 1944 ​

• AGE

23 ​

• GRAVESITE

Dartmouth (Longcross) Cemetery,Devon Sec. A Grave 287 ​

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

son of Francis Bertrand and Winifred Elizabeth Yates​

nephew of Rev. William Alfred Roberton,St Petrox Vicarage,Dartmouth,Devon​

air gunner​

Lancaster ME561​

target Politz,Germany (synthetic oil plant)​

crashed due fog 0240 hours Tealby,Lincolnshire ​

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Roberton Bertrand Yates

Roberton Yates would be my 2nd cousin although I never knew him.I have been researching his short life recently and am so pleased to find a photograph of him on this site,the first I have ever seen! His father, Lt. Cdr. F.B. Yates was awarded the D.S.O. for his part in the Kronstadt Raid 1919. Roberton was his only child.