Theres a wonderful write up of how Alfred Yelf won his DCM at the Battle of Loos on this particular website. I don't know who did the research so I can't credit them but it's an interesting read and full of detail. Alfred Leeds Yelf, DCM, C.de G. 1888-1977
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Letters of Agar Adamson, 1914 to 1919, Lieutenant Colonel, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry
The reference above to Yelf seems a bit harsh, especially as there is no context to the remark. It does provide the information that he was a chauffeur for a family called Perley though, so there's something of interest. The regimental record gives his initials as LG and his regimental number as 1506 so hopefully he will be fairly straightforward to identify
Yelf & Yelve : A dictionary of archaic and provincial words, obsolete phrases etc. By James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1846)
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| Don't panic - The Yelf link is just coincidental, but interesting anyway! |
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