Memorial Title
A Coates
Summary
Derbyshire War Memorials: a description of a WW1 war memorial to Albert Coates comprising additional lettering on a family gravestone at Spital Cemetery, Chesterfield.
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Locations
| Last known location: Spital Cemetery Hady Hill (A632) Spital Chesterfield Derbyshire |
Nearest postcode: S41 0DZ NGR: SK 39047 70772 ±5m (Map opens in new window.) |
Location details: About 35m northwest of the northwest corner of the old chapels at the centre of the cemetery. |
Type
| Overall type: Addition to gravestone. |
Overall condition: Fair. The inscription is legible. |
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| Description: An addition to the lettering on a headstone on a family grave. The tall white marble headstone has a rounded top with rounded and stepped shoulders, and recessed sides. At the head is a cross and intertwined cord in relief in a quatrefoil panel within a roundel, and to each side are sprays of flowers and foliage in relief in two polygonal panels. The inlaid inscription is in different styles of mainly upright decorative lettering. The headstone surmounts an oblong base with bevelled top and is accompanied by oblong kerbs but these have been broken and displaced. Glossary |
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Inscription
| In Memory of JOHN PROCTOR YOUNGEST SON OF TRUEMAN & MARY COATES DIED OCTR. 4TH. 1911, Aged 23 Years. "NOT OUR WILL, BUT THINE O LORD." ALSO SAMUEL TRUEMAN COATES ELDEST SON OF THE ABOVE DIED SEPTR. 29TH. 1912 Aged 29 Years. PEACE PERFECT PEACE ALSO THEIR SECOND SON ALBERT COATES, GUNNER, R.F.A. KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE OCTR. 13TH. 1918. Aged 33 Years. UNTIL THE DAY BREAK. |
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Administration
Local authorities:
From WW1: Chesterfield Parish Council, Chesterfield Borough Council; Derbyshire County Council.
From 1974: Chesterfield Borough Council (unparished); Derbyshire County Council.
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