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Corporal ALBERT ARTHUR COATES

Service Number: 5438521
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 21 April 1943

Age 29 years old

Buried or commemorated at

MASSICAULT WAR CEMETERY

III. G. 2.

Tunisia

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Charles and Lucy Coates, of Walthamstow, Essex; husband of Edith Rebecca Caroline Coates, of Walthamstow.
  • Personal Inscription "SO YOUNG HE WAS AND GAY SO GALLANT AND SO BRAVE A SOUL" HIS LOVING WIFE AND CHILDREN
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Buried or commemorated at

MASSICAULT WAR CEMETERY
Tunisia
Number of casualties: 1579
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