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Lance Corporal ROBERT COLES

Service Number: 7043
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Coldstream Guards

2nd Bn.

Date of Death

Died 18 September 1914

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

VAILLY BRITISH CEMETERY

I. C. 15.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Emma Coles. Born at Crediton, Devon.
  • Personal Inscription NOT GONE FROM MEMORY BUT TO HIS FATHER'S HOME ABOVE
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Buried or commemorated at

VAILLY BRITISH CEMETERY
Aisne France
Number of casualties: 699
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