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Military service
Service number:
R/73428
Age:
22
Rank:
Warrant Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
424 Sqdn.
Death:
February 7, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
3. F. 9.
Additional information
Son of Merton E. and Julia Coates, of Amherst, Cumberland Co., Nova Scotia, Canada.
Digital gallery of Warrant Officer Eddie Donald Coates
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Headstone of Eddie Donald Coates
I visited the grave in November 1999 at Sage War Cemetery, Oldenburg Germany. As far as I know, I was the first relative to see the grave. -
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Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Warrant Officer Eddie Donald Coates is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Warrant Officer Eddie Donald Coates is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
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Certificate of Registration of Birth from the Nova Scotia online archives.
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Warrant Officer Eddie Donald Coates
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Warrant Officer Eddie Donald Coates
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Eddie Donald Coates
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Eddie Donald Coates
Digital gallery of
Warrant Officer Eddie Donald Coates
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 147 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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