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Military service
Service number:
180019
Age:
34
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (British Columbia Regiment)
Division:
7th Bn.
Birth:
April 13, 1882
Enlistment:
Victoria, British Columbia
Death:
September 26, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
8.C. 12.
Additional information
Son of E William Henry and Elizabeth Leslie Coates, Fl of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CLEAL TO CONNOLLY. Microform Sequence 21; Volume Number 31829_B016730. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 165. Page 349 of 1384. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of April 7, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y101uvic#page/n0/mode/1up -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial (2010). Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. He was discovered and exhumed at a later date and now rests in a marked grave.May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of October 15, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist58y265uvic/mode/1up?view=theater. -
Newspaper clipping
Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Victoria (B. C.) Times newspaper c. 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Victoria (B. C.) Times newspaper c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Victoria (B. C.) Times newspaper c. 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private James Mansfield Coates
Digital gallery of
Private James Mansfield Coates
Digital gallery of
Private James Mansfield Coates
Digital gallery of
Private James Mansfield Coates
Digital gallery of
Private James Mansfield Coates
Digital gallery of
Private James Mansfield Coates
Digital gallery of
Private James Mansfield Coates
Digital gallery of
Private James Mansfield Coates
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 68 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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