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‘The Late Major C.A.L Yate, V.C.’, cigarette card, 1915. Cigarette card, No 20 from the 1st series of ‘The Great War Victoria Cross Heroes’, a set of 25 cigarette cards, issued by Gallaher Limited, Belfast and London, 1915. Posthumous portrait of Major Charles Allix Lavington Yate (1872-1914), King’s Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry), after a photograph by Elliot and Fry. The reverse of the card summarises Yate’s act of gallantry. It records that Yate, ‘won this honour at Le Cateau, Aug. 26th, 1914. This brave officer and his company made a last stand in trenches. When practically all had been disabled and all ammunition was ex-pended, Major Yate led the remnant in a gallant charge, and was mortally wounded.’. One of 103 cigarette cards, nd. From ‘The Great War Victoria Cross Heroes’, a set of cigarette cards (200 in full set) issued by Gallaher Limited, 1915-1916. Associated with World War One (1914-1918).

Le Cateau, Battle of, 1914 (World War One, Western Front 1914-1918)