Eric Albert Coates

Forenames

Eric Albert AWMM

Surname

Coates AWMM

Service number

WWI 11/643 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Address before enlistment

Unknown AWMM Napier, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

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

Relationship status

Pre 16 Oct 1914 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

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

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 11/643 AWMM

Medals and Awards

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

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM

Embarkation details

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

Medical notes

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

Last rank

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

Death

14 Nov 1918 AWMM
Age  25 AWMM

Cause of death

Died of Sickness AWMM

Cemetery

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

Memorial name

• 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

Related objects

Related Serviceperson

External links

• 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

References

• 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.