BORN HULL 1884. SON OF GEORGE HENRY COGGRAVE (1848-1930) & SARAH ANN ADAMS (1853-1944), OF 3 GOSHEN PLACE, JAMES STREET, HULL.(1911 CENSUS) AND 1 CLARENCE PLACE, PORTLAND STREET, HULL. SON OF A YEAST LABOURER. ONE OF TWELVE CHILDREN AND SEVEN SONS. BROTHERS GEORGE, FRED, WALTER, CHARLES, ALFRED, FRANK & JOSEPH. HUSBAND OF AMY LEAH COGGRAVE OF THIS ADDRESS. A GRAIN LABOURER. HE SERVED AS LANCE CORPORAL, 5195, 8TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 13/11/1916, AGED 31. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 23/12/1916, 31/07/1917, & 13/11/1917. HE IS BURIED AT SERRE ROAD CEMETERY No.1, PAS DE CALAIS, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “EVER IN OUR THOUGHTS”.
HE WAS ONE OF THREE SONS KILLED IN THE WAR. PRIVATE, WALTER COGGRAVE, 2ND EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT WAS KILLED AT LOOS, ON 29/09/1915, AGED 23.
LANCE CORPORAL, FREDERICK COGGRAVE, 8TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT, WAS KILLED AT SERRE, ON 13/11/1916, AGED 31.
PRIVATE, ALFRED COGGRAVE, 9TH KINGS OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY, WAS KILLED DURING THE 1918 GERMAN SPRING OFFENSIVE, ON 21/03/1918, AGED 29.
