The Grantham Pillars
Yeates, Anthony Anthony Yeates, or Tony as I am widely known, was born and bred in the village of Drayton St. Leonard in Oxfordshire. I was seven years old when the second World War broke out. The local Mount Farm airfield providing excitement, always something going on, the lumbering Wellington bombers and later to the sprightly blue painted Spitfires loaned to the USAAF. Troop movements around the village were frequent. The nearest I got to war was when an ...