Lot 4511

Description

Group of Seven to a pilot ace: Distinguished Flying Cross (GRI); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star, - clasp - France and Germany; Burma Star; Defence Medal 1939-45; War Medal 1939-45; General Service Medal 1918-62 (GVIR), - clasp - Malaya with MID. 1944 on reverse bottom arm of first medal, second - sixth medals unnamed, Flt.Lt. J.N.Yates. R.A.F. on last medal. First and last medals engraved. Very fine.

Together with embroidered pilot's wings (KC).

DFC: Supplement to LG 28/3/1944, p1444 to Flying Officer Jack Neville Yates (159463) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, No 607 Sqn.

Citation: This officer has completed a large number of sorties many of them in the Far East. Throughout these operations he has displayed a high degree of skill and courage, setting a very fine example. On one occasion Flying Officer Yates was wounded and his aircraft sustained severe damage but he flew on to an airfield and effected a safe landing. During an operation in February, 1944, he was engaged by 12 enemy fighters. Flying Officer Yates fought with great skill, however, and destroyed one of the enemy aircraft and afterwards led his section safely to base. This officer has destroyed at least 5 hostile aircraft.

MID: LG 16/3/1951, p1443 to Flight Lieutenant J.N.Yates (159463) Royal Air Force, 'for distinguished service in Malaya.'

After an operational tour of The Arkan against the Japanese, Flight Lieutenant Yates was posted to No 151 OTU at Peshawar training Royal Indian Air Force pilots. He returned to operational duty just before the end of the war against Japan. Together with research including a cypher message from ACSEA to Air Ministry, Kingsway, 13 March 1944, advising immediate awards by Air Commander in Chief South East Asia and in part describes some of the engagements and victories of Jack Yates flying a Hurricane Bomber.