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Gunner WILLIAM JOHN COATES

Service Number: 1659498
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Artillery

166 Bty., 56 Lt. A.A. Regt.

Date of Death

Died 09 May 1943

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ENFIDAVILLE WAR CEMETERY

VIII. E. 31.

Tunisia

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Charles Browell Coates and Elizabeth Coates, of Wingate, Co. Durham; husband of Alice Coates, of Station Town, Wingate.
  • Personal Inscription "IN A SOLDIER'S GRAVE NOW AT REST HAPPY AND LOVING ONE OF THE BEST." RESURGAM.
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Buried or commemorated at

ENFIDAVILLE WAR CEMETERY
Tunisia
Number of casualties: 1551
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