Charles Edward Yate is in the 1851 Census, aged 1, the son of Charles Yate, Vicar of Holme upon Spalding Moor (aged 46) and his wife Jane A (aged 24). Charles (jnr) was born in Holme, which is in Yorkshire.
That is the only record of him in the census.
He is in the 1914 Army List as a Brevet Colonel on the Indian Army Staff. His substantive rank of Lt Colonel is effective 9 November 1893. He is not a ‘sir’, just CSI, CMG, so he must have received the GCSI to gain the title ‘Sir’ later. He is not in the September 1918 Army List.
In the 1883 Army List, it says that his home regiment is the 49th Foot (Berkshire Regiment). He is attached to the Bombay Staff Corps as a Political Assistant, Third Class, at Rajpootana, with the rank of Captain. He became an officer in November 1867.
In the 1884 List he is now a 2nd Class Political Assistant, and is Boundary Settlement Officer in Bhoppaul.
In 1890 he is a Major (from November 1887), and has both the CSI and CMG by then.
In 1894, he has at last got around to telling the publishers his war service. “Major CE Yate served in the Afghan War in 1880 as Political Officer at Khelat-I-Ghilize, accompanied Sir Frederick Roberts in the march to Candahar, and was present at battle of Candahar (Medal with Clasp, and Bronze Decoration).”
So medal no 5 is the Afghanistan medal with clasp for Kandahar. Neil confirmed that medal no 7 is the Delhi Durbar medal. That was when King Edward VII visited India, and all the Indian princes paid homage.
So that leaves medal 3, medal 4 and the neck and breast badge. I thought the last ones might be for the GCSI when he could call himself ‘Sir’, but he is plain Colonel in the 1914 Army List.
Ken
