Robert Coates (19663 Pte.)

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a soldier of the border regiment
remembered with honour

Lonsdale Battalion Roll of Honour

Name	Robert Coates
Rank	Private
Number	19663
Company
Attached §
Transferred ¥	8th Border Regiment
Former unit ‡	None listed in SDGW
Enlisted	Penrith, Cumberland
Resident	Orton, Westmorland
Born	Orton
Died	5 July 1916
Where died	France and Flanders
How died	Killed in action
Age	31
Casualty type	Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial	Memorial (see notes)
Reference no.	Pier and Face 6A and 7C
Resting place	Thiepval Memorial
Source	Commonwealth War Graves Commission Soldiers Died in the Great War (1921)
Notes	*Son of the late Robert and Agnes Coates. *Husband of Isabella Coates of Swan Villa, Orton, Penrith, Cumberland. *Also commemorated on the Orton Church War Memorial.

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