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He was born in London, 29 October 1891, the 1st son of Frederick Pinchard Coles, a stockbroker, of Hyde Park, London. He was educated at Eton College (1905-1910) and then Corpus where he achieved a pass degree in Political Theory and Institutions in 1912 and in Greek Philosophy and History and English Law in 1913. At college he was also Secretary of the Boat Club (1911-1912). Briefly a stockbroker in London (1913-1914), he married Dorothy, daughter of Robert Frothingham before, as a member of the University Contingent of the Officers’ Training Corps he enlisted on 29 August 1914.