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Victor Maslin Yeates
Victor Maslin Yeates (30 September 1897 — 15 December 1934), often abbreviated to V. M. Yeates, was a British fighter pilot in World War I. He wrote ''Winged Victory'', a semi-autobiographical work widely regarded as one of the most realistic and moving accounts of aerial combat and the futility of war.
==Background==
Yeates was born at Dulwich and educated at Colfe's School, where according to Henry Williamson he read Keats under the desk during Maths, explored woods, fields and ponds and kept a tame tawny owl.〔Henry Williamson. 'Tribute to V M Yeates' in V M Yeates. Winged Victory. Jonathan Cape. London. 1962 p2〕 Yeates joined the Inns of Court Officer Training Corps in 1916 and transferred to the Royal Flying Corps (later the Royal Air Force) in May 1917. Serving with No. 46 Squadron, to which he was posted in February 1918. Yeates flew 248 hours in Sopwith Camels, crashed four times, was shot down twice and scored five victories thereby achieving "ace" status.〔Gordon Atkin "Winged Victor" Springwater Books 2004〕
After the war, Yeates died of tuberculosis, in Fairlight Sanatorium at Hastings in 1934. He was survived by his wife Norah Phelps Yeates (née Richards) and his four children Mary, Joy Elinor (later married Christopher David Vowles), Guy Maslin (later married Binnie Yeates) and Rosalind (later married Edward Cullinan); all of whom had lived with Yeates in a small house in Kent on the Sidcup by-pass of the Dover Road.〔great-grand daughter〕〔Henry Williamson. 'Tribute to V M Yeates' in V M Yeates. Winged Victory. Jonathan Cape. London. 1962 p3〕
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