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Sapper Enos Owen Coles
273897 Royal Engineers Light Railway Works Company

Son of Mr. and Mrs. William Coles
Husband of Mrs. F. Coles

Aged 30 years

Died 31st October 1918

Commemorated at Etaples Military Cemetery
Grave LXXI. D. 19.


Born at Swineshead.
Rushden Echo, 8th November 1918, transcribed by Kay Collins

Soldier'€™s Death—Sapper Enos O. Coles, R.E., of Stanwick, died of Pneumonia in the Canadian Hospital at Etaples, France, at 3a.m. on October 31st, and official news to that effect was received by his wife at Stanwick on Tuesday. Deceased, who was 30 years of age, was buried in the Military Cemetery at Etaples. He was the son of the late Mr. Coles, of Riseley and Hargrave, and of Mrs. John Parker, of Raunds. Before joining the Colours at Easter 1917, he worked for Messrs. J. Horrell and Sons, Raunds. In France he was employed in the military light railway workshops.



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