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n Clare’s death was recorded in Stamford in 1963. He was
aged 71.
COLES Levi
Private 12805 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment
Levi was born on the 5th May 1897 in Kings Cliffe, to Sarah
Ellen Coles.
They lived on West Street, with his grandparents, Herbert and
Ellen Coles. In the 1911 census Sarah is described as deaf and
dumb since birth and nursing her invalided mother. Grandfather
Herbert died in 1913, and this may have been the trigger which
broke the family up.
The detailed service records have not survived the WW2 fire, but
we know that he joined the Lincolnshire Regiment in Stamford,
possibly before the commencement of the war as he joined
the 1st Battalion, a Regular Army unit. Most of the New Army
recruits had not finished training and received their weapons
and kit until mid 1915. It is likely that he lied about his age as, at
that stage in the war, recruits were not allowed to go overseas
until they were 18.
He died on 16th June 1915 aged just 17 years. He was fighting
on the Ypres salient and is buried at Ypres, West Flanders. He
is remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. Panel 21.
COXHEAD Frederick William
Gunner 79317 Royal Horse Artillery
Frederick was born in 1895 at 11, Barnes Terrace, Lambeth St
John, London. His parents were Thomas and Emily Coxhead
who had moved to London from Wiltshire to work as horsemen
on the railway system.
He served in Egypt, Gaza, Syria and the Western Front. He was
not wounded or gassed but suffered from nightmares after the
war. At the end of the war he moved to Kings Cliffe to work for
Colonel Hogkins, and, later, on the Brassey estate in Apethorpe.
He met Laura Healey (nee Clements ) whose husband had
been killed in the war. She was living with her three children on
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aged 71.
COLES Levi
Private 12805 1st Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment
Levi was born on the 5th May 1897 in Kings Cliffe, to Sarah
Ellen Coles.
They lived on West Street, with his grandparents, Herbert and
Ellen Coles. In the 1911 census Sarah is described as deaf and
dumb since birth and nursing her invalided mother. Grandfather
Herbert died in 1913, and this may have been the trigger which
broke the family up.
The detailed service records have not survived the WW2 fire, but
we know that he joined the Lincolnshire Regiment in Stamford,
possibly before the commencement of the war as he joined
the 1st Battalion, a Regular Army unit. Most of the New Army
recruits had not finished training and received their weapons
and kit until mid 1915. It is likely that he lied about his age as, at
that stage in the war, recruits were not allowed to go overseas
until they were 18.
He died on 16th June 1915 aged just 17 years. He was fighting
on the Ypres salient and is buried at Ypres, West Flanders. He
is remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial. Panel 21.
COXHEAD Frederick William
Gunner 79317 Royal Horse Artillery
Frederick was born in 1895 at 11, Barnes Terrace, Lambeth St
John, London. His parents were Thomas and Emily Coxhead
who had moved to London from Wiltshire to work as horsemen
on the railway system.
He served in Egypt, Gaza, Syria and the Western Front. He was
not wounded or gassed but suffered from nightmares after the
war. At the end of the war he moved to Kings Cliffe to work for
Colonel Hogkins, and, later, on the Brassey estate in Apethorpe.
He met Laura Healey (nee Clements ) whose husband had
been killed in the war. She was living with her three children on
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