Name
Samuel Benjamin Goate
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
28/06/1918
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
161614
Royal Engineers
3rd Army H.Q. Signal Company
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VARENNES MILITARY CEMETERY
III. I. 10.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Barkway Village Memorial, St Mary Magdalene Church Memorial, Barkway
Pre War
Born Ipswich. Enlisted Hitchin. Son of Mr. And Mrs. Edward Goate, later recorded at 18, Alexandra Rd., Colchester, Essex; Husband of Elsie A. Goate, Of Barkway, Royston, Herts.
They had a son called Robert Frederick birn around 1917.
Additional Information
Samuel is also commemorated on his son's headstone in Baldock Cemetery, his inscription reads:
". . . ALSO OF SAMUEL COATE FATHER OF THE ABOVE (ROBERT FREDERICK COATE) KILLED IN ACTION JUNE 28TH 1918 AGED 31 YEARS(*1) WE ASKED LIFE FOR THEM THOU GAVEST LIFE FOR EVER MORE"
Acknowledgments
Paul Johnson, Adrian Pitts
