Second Lieutenant Basil Montgomery Coates

Regiment: 10th Rifle Brigade
Panel reference: Panel 10.
Date published: 26/11/1915
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 07/09/1915
Cemetery: Ploegsteert Memorial, Hainaut, Belgium
Information: Second Lieut. Basil Montgomery Coates, 10th Rifle Brigade, was the only son of the late W. Montgomery Coates, M.A. and double gold medallist of Trinity College, Dublin, and Fellow and Bursar of Queen's College, Cambridge and of Mrs. W. Montgomery Coates, of Sheringham, Norfolk. Born at Cambridge on September 16, 1893, he was educated at the Perse School, Cambridge, Oundle School (at both schools he served in the O.T.C.), and Queen's College, Cambridge. On the outbreak of war he was given a commission in the Rifle Brigade, and was killed in France on September 7, 1915