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Recovered 08.08.2023 from https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/1559175/edwin-harry-coates/
PRIVATE EDWIN HARRY COATES
Service Number: G/4927
Middlesex Regiment 2nd Bn.
Date of Death 14 March 1915
Commemorated at LE TOURET MEMORIAL Panels 31 and 32. France
http://www.isle-of-wight-memorials.org.uk/people_c/coates_eh.htm
1891 : Edward and Rose Coates, with their family including Edwin aged 7 months, are at 28, Market Hill, Sudbury, Suffolk. Edward Coates is a Manager Confectioner and Baker .
1901 : Edward and Rose Coates, with their family including Edwin aged 10, are at Boarding House, High Street, Shanklin. Edward Coates is a Refreshment Contractor.
1911 : Edward and Rose Coates, with four daughters, are at High Street, Shanklin. Edward Coates is a Restaurant Proprietor.
ISLE OF WIGHT MERCURY
Friday, March 26, 1915 Page 5
SHANKLIN MAN'S HEROIC END
News has reached Shanklin of the death of Private E.H. (Jack) Coates, of the 2nd Middlesex Regiment. The deceased, who was 23 years of age, was killed in action at the fighting at Neuve Chappelle. The parents of the deceased young fellow have received a communication from an officer at the regiment, expressing his sympathy and testifying to the bravery of Coates in the fighting. When he was killed he was assisting a wounded officer. His name has been sent to higher authority by the officer who saw the act. The deceased was a champion amateur wrestler.
1911 : Edwin Harry Coates, "aged 19", is at the Spa Hotel, Tonbridge, Kent. He is a Cook.
FATHER http://www.isle-of-wight-memorials.org.uk/people_c/coates_ef.htm
Name : Edward Francis Coates.
Son of George Coates and Emma Amelia Coates (née Sillitoe).
Born 1862, Sudbury, Suffolk.
Husband of Rosa Eleanor Coates (née Barton, married 1886 in Sudbury), of "East Holme," St. Paul's Avenue, Shanklin, Isle of Wight.
Rifleman P/1773 Edward Francis Coates, 19th Bn Rifle Brigade
Edward Coates attested in the Rifle Brigade on 27 October 1915 at Aldershot, stating that he had previously served with the 5th Volunteer Brigade, Hampshire Regiment.
He was posted for service with the British Expeditionary Force in France and was appointed Acting Sergeant. He was discharged in August 1917 as no longer fit for military service and died in Mile End Military Hospital 21 September 1917. The cause of death was given as pulmonary tuberculosis.