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Major DAVID EDWARD FERGUS COATES

Service Number: 72962
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)

6th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 15 May 1944

Age 32 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CASSINO WAR CEMETERY

XII. C. 22.

Italy

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of David Aitchison Coates and Margaret McVey Coates, of Perth; husband of Wilma Coates. B.A. (Cantab.): Jesus College; LL.B. (Edin.).
  • Personal Inscription WRITER TO THE SIGNET. B.A. JESUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. LL.B. EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY
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Buried or commemorated at

CASSINO WAR CEMETERY
Italy
Number of casualties: 4277
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