Four: Captain E. Yeates, New Zealand Medical Corps, Late Civil Surgeon Attached British South Africa Police, Imperial Yeomanry and Cape Medical Staff Corps, Onetime British Red Cross Society and St. John of Jerusalem, Queen's South Africa, three clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Surgeon); King's South Africa, two clasps (Capt., B.S.A. Police); British War Medal 1914-18 (B.R.C. & St. J.J.); and another identical (Capt., N.Z.M.C.), one or two edge bruises, generally good very fine (4)

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Four: Captain E. Yeates, New Zealand Medical Corps, Late Civil Surgeon Attached British South Africa Police, Imperial Yeomanry and Cape Medical Staff Corps, Onetime British Red Cross Society and St. John of Jerusalem, Queen's South Africa, three clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Surgeon); King's South Africa, two clasps (Capt., B.S.A. Police); British War Medal 1914-18 (B.R.C. & St. J.J.); and another identical (Capt., N.Z.M.C.), one or two edge bruises, generally good very fine (4)

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Captain Edward Yeates qualified in medicine in Ireland in 1886 and was elected an F.R.C.S. in 1893. Attached, via the Royal Army Medical Corps, to no less than three units in South Africa, including the Imperial Yeomanry, he did not see further overseas service in the Great War.