BORN BOSTON, LINCS 1895. MARRIED AT HULL, IN 1915. WIFE ROSE ANNIE WALKER (1894-1979), OF DALTRY STREET, HULL. THEY HAD ONE DAUGHTER, JANE.
HE HAD THREE SISTERS AND FOUR BROTHERS. SON OF CAROLINE ROWLAND (1857-1937) & WILLIAM D COATES (1860-1916). LOST ON THE SAME SHIP WITH HIS FATHER. LISTED ON HULL’S ETON STREET ROLL OF HONOUR, HESSLE ROAD, HULL.
The Hull trawler EARL (H436) was reported missing in the North Sea on 21/1/1916. The Hull trawler EARL (1916), owned by the Great Northern Steam Fishing Company, was on Saturday given up for lost. The vessel which carried a crew of nine, left Hull on 21st January for a voyage to the North Sea fishing grounds. Nothing has since been heard of the trawler, and it is feared she has been lost with her crew. [Dundee Courier 22.2.1916] Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?151938
CREW LOST ON EARL (H436), missing, result of enemy action, 21st January, 1916.
BROWNHILL, A (51), 140 Regent St, Hull. Cook
BUCHAN, William (17), 30 Haddon St, Hull. Trimmer
COATES, William (20), 6 Empringham-Place, Daltry St, Hull. 3rd/Hand
COATES, William (59), 25 Buxton-Ter, Daltry St, Hull. Skipper
JACKSON, Frederick (34), 236 Boulevard, Hull. 2nd/Hand
MASON, W (50), Address not traced. 4th/Hand
MEDWAY, William (55), Nivana-ter, Blundell St, Hull. Bosun
NEWMARSH, George (36), 3 Helen-Ter, Marmaduke St, Hull. Bosun
PATTERSON, B (22), 1 Blenheim-Crescent, Rugby St, Hull. 2nd/Engineer
