David Peel Yates

Lieutenant-General Sir David Peel Yates, (10 July 1911 – 8 October 1978) was a senior British Army officer who served in the Second World War and reached high office during the 1960s.

Early life and education Peel Yates was the son of Hubert Peel Yates and the brother of Captain Colin Peel Yates of the Royal Navy. He was educated at Haileybury College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was deployed on Waziristan operations on the North West Frontier of India in 1937 before becoming adjutant of the 1st Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment, a Territorial Army unit, in 1939. He was General Officer Commanding-in-Chief (GOC-in-C) for Eastern Command from 1966 to 1968, when he became GOC-in-C for Southern Command. He retired in 1969.

Family In 1947, Yates married Christine Hilary Williams, daughter of Horatio Stanley Williams; they had a son and a daughter.