FREDERICK ERNEST COATES
Image from the Suffolk Chronicle and Mercury – 1917
Born: 30th November 1892, at 1, Little Wingfield Street, St. Stephen’s, Ipswich.
Baptised on Christmas Day, 1892, at St. Stephen’s Church, Ipswich, with his brother George Herbert Coates, born 23rd April 1889 – family home at 1, Little Wingfield Street, Ipswich.
Died: 23rd October 1917; age 24; died of Gas Poisoning whilst on active service, at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, City of London.
Residence: 11, Little Wingfield Street, Ipswich.
Enlistment Location: Woolwich, Kent.
Rank: Driver; Service Number: 208503
Regiment: Royal Field Artillery, 57th Divisional Ammunition Column.
Medals Awarded: Victory, British War & 1914 Star.
Funeral and burial service held on the 30th October.
Grave Reference:
BA.1A.18.
Ipswich.
Relatives Notified & Address: Son of Walter Coates, of 11, Little Wingfield Street, Ipswich; husband of Agnes Hannah Coppin (formerly Coates), of 16, Coniston Square, Nacton Road, Ipswich.
Brother to ARTHUR CHARLES COATES.
CENSUS
1901 11, Little Wingfield Street, Ipswich.
Frederick was 10 years old and living with his widowed father & siblings.
Walter Coates, 46, a Coachman for a Brewer, born Wherstead, Suffolk.
William Coates, 19, a Grocer’s Warehouseman, born Ipswich.
Walter Coates, 18, an Ironmonger’s Porter, born Ipswich.
Elizabeth Margaret Coates, 16, the Housekeeper – at home, born Ipswich.
Ethel Mabel Coates, 15, a Tailoress, born Ipswich.
Arthur Charles Coates, 13, born St. Stephen’s, Ipswich.
George Herbert Coates, 12, born Ipswich.
Florence May Coates, 6, born Ipswich.
1911 11, Little Wingfield Street, Ipswich.
Frederick was 19 years old, a Porter for Fish & Son – Drapery Shop. He was living with his father & siblings.
Walter, 57, a Grocer – employer.
Arthur, 22, a Porter – Smith’s Suitall Son – General Stationery.
Florence, 16, the Housekeeper – at home.
Frederick’s mother was Margaret Georgina Coates (nee Kemp), born 1857, St. James, Westminster – died on the 8th September 1895, at her home, Little Wingfield Street, Ipswich and was buried on the 12th September in Section I, Ipswich Old Cemetery.
In 1916, in Ipswich, Frederick married Agnes Hannah Damant, born September 1893, Woodbridge, Suffolk – daughter of John Damant and the late Hannah Eliza Damant (nee Goldsmith), and stepdaughter of Alice Damant (nee Ellis), of 29, Devonshire Road, Ipswich. John and Alice Damant were Ipswich Corporation managers of The Baths, Fore Street, Ipswich.
Agnes and Frederick had one son:
Ernest John Coates, born September 1917, Ipswich. Widowed, Agnes took her young son to be baptised on the 2nd December 1917, at St. Matthew’s Church, Ipswich – family home at 108, Norwich Road, Ipswich.
Frederick became a father to Agnes’ daughter, Olive Annie Gertrude Damant, born July 1913, Lambeth. Olive’s surname was changed to Coates.
Soldiers’ Effects to Agnes H. Coates – widow.
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