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Private JOHN COATES

Service Number: 13100532
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Pioneer Corps

208 (F.) Coy

Date of Death

Died 18 July 1944

Age 41 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HERMANVILLE WAR CEMETERY

2. B. 14.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Wilson Scarr Coates and Catherine Coates, of Radcliffe, Lancashire; husband of Mary Coates, of Radcliffe.
  • Personal Inscription HE GAVE HIS LIFE THAT WE MIGHT LIVE. DUTY NOBLY DONE
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Buried or commemorated at

HERMANVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 1005
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