Private Thomas Coates

Army Number: 201513 (formerly 4365)

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Tutbury, Staffordshire. Son of Mary Elizabeth Aldridge, of 3 Craven Street, Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire. He enlisted on 21st May 1915 at Derby and went to France on 13th March 1916 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 20, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Private Thomas Coates is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Mary’s Church War Memorial, Tutbury, Staffordshire.