Yorkshire
Regiment War Graves, - Broughton (Lancs), St. John's Churchyard |
Although there are no Commonwealth War Graves in this churchyard in which soldiers of the Yorkshire Regiment are interred, there is a family memorial which includes the name of a Yorkshire Regiment Officer killed in the First World War.
Photos are by Berenice Baynham.
2nd Lieutenant Arthur Coates.
4th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
Son of Thomas Coates, of Fulwood, Preston, Lancs. Killed 27 October 1916.
Aged 23.
Commemorated Pier and Face 15 A and 15 B, THIEPVAL MEMORIAL.
The Parish Church of Broughton St John the Baptist, Graveyard
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The Parish Church of Broughton St John the Baptist
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