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Lance Corporal JAMES COATES

Service Number: 14544344
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Armoured Corps

"C" Sqn. 2nd Derbyshire Yeomanry

Date of Death

Died 24 October 1944

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

NEDERWEERT WAR CEMETERY

I. E. 11.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Edward and Abigail Coates, of Gateshead, Co. Durham.
  • Personal Inscription HE SAW THE POWERS OF DARKNESS PUT TO FLIGHT; HE SAW THE MORNING BREAK
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Buried or commemorated at

NEDERWEERT WAR CEMETERY
Limburg (Netherlands) Netherlands
Number of casualties: 363
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