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William Henry Roy Addison Coates | |||
Rank: | Flying Officer (Nav) | Number: | 73128 |
Ship/Rgn/Sqn No: | 604 Sqn RAFVR | ||
Name of Rgt or Ship: | Fighter Command | ||
Died: | 28/08/1944 | Age: | 35 |
How Died: | Killed in Action | ||
Country of burial: | France | Grave Photo: | No |
Cemetery or Memorial: | Villeneuve-St. Georges Old Comm. Cemetery | ||
Town Memorial: | Not Listed | ||
Extra Information: | |||
Born during the June quarter 1909 in the Haslingden R.D. - ref 8e/112, the only child of William Robert Addison & Eleanor Anne Coates (nee Shaw). 1911 Census - Inveravon House, 42 Manchester Road, Haslingden, Lancashire. Son - (listed as ROY Coates) aged: 2 - born: Haslingden, Lancashire. Head of household - William Coates - Married - aged: 34 - occ: Surgeon - born: York, Yorkshire. Also - Eleanor Coates - aged: 36 - born: Manchester. Plus 2 domestic servants. B.A. Hons. (Manchester). Author of two books:- "The stabilisation of exchanges" : (address to the Manchester Country Conference of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries) by Coates, William Henry Roy Addison. Published 1934 Classmark: HG/635 "Our money" by Coates, William Henry Roy Addison. Published 1937 Classmark: HG/789 Gazetted Honorary Flight Lt. - 14/04/1939. Commemorated on the Manchester University Memorial and Metro-Vickers Rugby Union Football Club Memorial. To provide night fighter cover for the D-Day invasion fleet and then for the Normandy bridgehead, 604 Sqn was moved to A.8. Picauville, France on the 6th August 1944. Flying a Night Patrol, north of Paris in Mosquito NF.XIII - No. MM528, they encountered a Ju88, but the a/c was hit by something and crashed. The pilot was thrown clear and survived but F/O. Coates was killed. M.I. - "Most dearly loved only child of William & Eleanor Coates of Haslingden, Lancashire". See also the IN MEMORY website owned by Pierre Vandervelden - http://www.inmemories.com/Cemeteries/villeneuvestgeorgesold.htm |
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Manchester University | |||
Metro-Vickers R.U.F.C. (Sale) | |||
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