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Lance Corporal Richard Coates was born in Beverley in 1894, he was the eldest son of Tom and Annie Coates who had 14 children, 12 of whom survived. In 1911 the family were living at Paradise Cottage, Chantry Lane, Beverley.
Richard together with his younger brother Herbert joined the 5th Battalion the Yorkshire Regiment, Green Howards, (Territorials) and saw action for the first time in 1915. As part of the 50th Northumbrian Division the territorials saw action in nearly all the major battles of the long conflict.
Both of the brothers survived the war, Richard married Ethel Clements in 1920. In 1922 the Beverley Guardian had a photograph of the newly formed Green Howards Association which shows some of the men from the regiment who survived the war. The association laid a wreath at the new War Memorial in Hengate on 22 Apr 1922 to commemorate the regiment first going into battle in Apr 1915. Richard died in 1960.
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