Medals

12. Pte. Walter Coatsworth

 

Name

Walter Coatsworth

Service number

TS/4157

To 82nd T.R.Btn TR/5/48496

36057 2nd A.S.C Remounts, 6th Yorkshire L.I.

Rank – including any

promotions, with dates

Private

Regiment

 

Battalion

 

Unit

 

Postings

 

Wounds

 

Silver War Badge? (WWI)

 

PoW Info. Etc.

 

Date of Discharge

 

Other Information

 

 

 

Birthplace

Hamsterley

Date of birth

1879

Enlisted

20/08/1914

Lived

 

Parents

Joseph and Hannah Coatsworth, siblings, Elizabeth 1874; Peggy. 1883 ; Mary 1887

 + address

85 Toft Hill, Bishop Auckland

Wife

Lilian Mabel Booth married 1903 died 1912 aged 34

 + address

 

Children

Walton Stanley Coatsworth B.

Occupation

Coal Miner ( Deputy)

 

 

Medals – held in

collection

Citations

1914 Star + rosette

1914/18 BWM

1914/18 VM

Medals – others awarded but

not held in collection

 

 

Citations/Notes

Pension records show Mary Booth – Mother in law and Stanley Booth son

 

(1911 census states that Mary Booth is sister of Lilian Mabel)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How died – not known, at home, of wounds, killed in action

Killed in Action

Date of death

16 October 1917 ( Pension Ledgers)

Age

38

Memorial

NEWMP – Cross 1914-18 St Andrew’s Churchyard (S144.01) listed on the unveiling programme = page 9

Plaque DLI 1914-18 Belvedere Club with images + BATH

4th row

Cemetery – plot, row and grave

Tyne Cot Cemetery

 

 1911 census

Mary Booth head  aged  56 – Single – ( Mother in law) – 1939 register living at 30 Escomb Road, Bishop Auckland

Watson Coatsworth brother aged 30 coal miner

Mabel Coatsworth sister aged 30

Stanley Coatsworth aged 7

The remainder of screenshots are from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Notes from  NEWMP

Present location for the Belvedere Plaque and medals

 The DLI Association used to meet in the Belvedere Club where this memorial used to hang.  The Association is now based in Shildon, and arranged for the memorial to be placed in Bishop Auckland Town Hall because, for some unknown reason, they did not want it to go to the DLI Museum