BORN HULL 10/11/1886. SON OF GEORGE JORDAN COGGIN(1850-1904) & ELLEN PEDDER (1855-1921), OF 12, ALEXANDRA TERRACE, BARNSLEY STREET, HULL. HIS FATHER DIED IN 1904. HIS MOTHER DIED IN 1921. ONE OF 11 SIBBLINGS, SOME OF WHICH DIED IN INFANCY.
EMPLOYED AS A DOCK LABOURER AND FOREMAN STEVEDORE FOR MESSRS HOLLAND, OF HULL.
HE MARRIED IN 1910, AT SCULCOATES, HULL. HIS WIFE, SARAH JANE (DUNKIN) AND TWO SONS, WILLIAM AND ALBERT, LIVED AT 8, HERBERT’S TERRACE, BARNSLEY STREET, HULL AND 8, ELM GROVE, WITHERNSEA STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).
HE ENLISTED HULL. KILLED IN ACTION AT YPRES, 15/06/1916, AGED 29. HE IS BURIED AT ELZENWALLE BRASSERIE CEMETERY, BELGIUM.
HIS OLDER BROTHER JOHN COGGIN, 6TH EYR, HAD BEEN KILLED AT GALLIPOLI ON 15/08/1915, THE YEAR BEFORE.
HIS OTHER BROTHER, GEORGE SURVIVED THE WAR AND WAS AWARDED THE MERITORIOUS SERVICE MEDAL (MSM) FOR WORK AT SEA.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE BARNSLEY STREET & ST MARKS STREET ROLL OF HONOUR WITH HIS BROTHER, PTE JOHN COGGIN, 6TH EYR, AGED 32.
