Private William Coggan

Army Number : 118500

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

Born and lived at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Son of John William and Eliza Coggan, of 16 Rosemary Street, Mansfield. He was a colliery rope lad prior to enlisting 15th May 1916 at Mansfield. He went to France 4th October 1918 with the 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment and posted to the 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 9th October 1918. He was killed in action, 17th October 1918, in teh attack at Remicourt, France.

Buried : Busigny Communal Cemetery Extension, France. Plot 4. Row A. Grave 22.

Private William Coggan is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Mansfield District Council Offices Roll of Honour, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.