Walter Yates (cricketer)
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Warsop, Nottinghamshire,
England
Nottinghamshire, England
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| Full name | Walter Gerald Yates | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 June 1919 Warsop, Nottinghamshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 15 December 2008 (aged 89) Nottinghamshire, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1937–1938 | Nottinghamshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 31 October 2011 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Walter Gerald Yates (18 June 1919 – 15 December 2008) was an English cricketer. Yates was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born at Warsop, Nottinghamshire.
Yates made his first-class debut for Nottinghamshire against Leicestershire in 1937 County Championship. He made five further first-class appearances for the county, the last of which came against Kent in the 1938 County Championship.[1] In his six first-class appearances, he scored 69 runs at an average of 9.85, with a high score of 19.[2] He took a single first-class wicket, that of Essex captain Denys Wilcox.[3]
Yates served during World War II with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, serving by November 1942 with the rank of corporal.[4] By April 1943, Yates held the rank of pilot officer. It was in May that he was dismissed from service by way of a General Court-martial.[5] However, as the war effort was short of pilots, he was demoted and served as a Spitfire pilot in Burma with the County of Durham Squadron until the end of the war.
He died in Nottinghamshire on 15 December 2008.