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Military service
Service number:
B/38171
Age:
23
Rank:
Rifleman
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Queen's Own Rifles of Canada, R.C.I.C.
Birth:
November 15, 1920
Melfort, Saskatchewan
Enlistment:
August 1, 1940
Hamilton, Ontario
Death:
June 6, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. E. 16.
Additional information
Son of James Lewis Coates and Irene Helen Coates, of Hamilton, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Rifleman Harry James Coates
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Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Gravemarker
This photo of Rfn Coates' gravemarker was tkaen by Padre Craig Cameron of The QOR of C in June 1997. -
Cemetery
The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens) -
Grave marker
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Other
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Other
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Other
Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Hamilton Spectator c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Harry James Coates
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Harry James Coates
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Harry James Coates
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Harry James Coates
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Harry James Coates
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Harry James Coates
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Harry James Coates
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Harry James Coates
Digital gallery of
Rifleman Harry James Coates
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 275 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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