- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE6430
Yates, Grace
- Occupation Businesswoman, War widow
Summary
Following the death of her husband, Captain Albert Yates, MID, in action with the AIF on the Western Front in 1918, English-born war widow Grace Yates began running a boarding house in Sydney. Her business was subsidised by the Repatriation Department and enabled her to supplement her war widow’s pension and the allowances for her young children. She continued taking paying guests until 1923. Her subsequent movements are unknown, it is possible she returned to England.
Read a longer essay on Grace Yates in the online exhibition War Widows of the ACT: A Forgotten Legacy of World War I.