Eric Albert Coates

Ngā ingoa tuatahi

Eric Albert AWMM

Ingoa whānau

Coates AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 11/643 AWMM

Ira tangata

Male AWMM

Wāhi noho i mua i te whakaurunga

Unknown AWMM Napier, New Zealand AWMM

Uri kiritahi

Oswald Coates (father), Smeeton's Buildings, Queen Street, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM

Mēnā he hoa rangatira tōna

Pre 16 Oct 1914 AWMM Single AWMM

Pakanga

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Kauhanga riri

• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM
• Sinai & Palestine AWMM
• Sinai & Palestine AWMM

Te Ope o Tū / te peka

Army AWMM

Nama Hōia

WWI 11/643 AWMM

Mētara me ngā Tohu

• 1914-1915 Star AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM

Te urunga

WW1 Unknown AWMM

Taipitopito ekenga waka

WW1 16 Oct 1914 AWMM
HMNZT 6 or HMNZT 10 AWMM Vessel was Orari or Arawa AWMM Trooper AWMM Wellington Mounted Rifles AWMM Main Body AWMM

Tuhinga hauora

Died of Sickness, Cause of Death AWMM
Died of pneumonia AWMM

Te tūnga whakamutunga

WW1 Second Lieutenant AWMM
New Zealand Machine Gun Corps AWMM

Son of Oswald and Valerie A. Coates (nee Lassaie) 14 Hastings Rd, Remuera, Auckland.

Two sons, brothers served in WW1: Eric Albert Coates (11/643) and Randolph Edward Oswald Coates (12/59) died of wounds.

Next of Kin: Mr C. Coates, Remuera, Auckland (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 1)) AWMM

Matenga

14 Nov 1918 AWMM
Age  25 AWMM

Te momo matenga

Died of Sickness AWMM

Urupā

Purewa Cemetery and Crematorium, Meadowbank, Auckland, New Zealand AWMM Block F Row 37 Plot 033 AWMM

Ingoa maumaharatanga

• Featherston Cemetery Memorial, Featherston, New Zealand AWMM
• St. Aidans Church, 5 Ascot Avenue, Remuera, Auckland 1050 AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Mea e whai hononga ai

Tangata Ope Tauā

Hononga ki waho

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R21897690
  Further Reference
• Other military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R7879750
  Further Reference
• Ministry for Culture and Heritage, New Zealand History online. Featherston Cemetery War Memorial.
  https://nzhistory.govt.nz/memorial/featherston-cemetery-war-memorial
  Further Reference
• World War I Roll of Honour for the Ōrākei Local Board area. Auckland Council. Retrieved October 2017.
  https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/about-auckland-council/how-auckland-council-works/local-boards/all-local-boards/orakei-local-board/Documents/world-war-roll-honour.pdf
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/642956/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/642956
  Further Reference

Ngā tuhinga

• Included in the World War I Digital Roll of Honour for the Ōrākei Local Board area. The Ōrākei Local Board commissioned a World War I roll of honour for its area to commemorate the war’s centenary. The board welcomes additional information from the public on this project.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 135
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 1: Includes portrait
• The Fields of Remembrance Trust: Brothers Field, Auckland Museum (Armistice, 2018)
• Information kindly provided by family
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.
• Luxford, J. (1923). With the machine gunners in France and Palestine. Auckland, N.Z.: Whitcombe & Tombs.