
The name of Richard Coote on the Loos Memorial. Photographed for ‘Marching in Memory’ for Combat Stress, July 2015
Today we remember …
13th October 1915. Richard Coote, A Social 1906. Captain, 8th Bn, Royal Berkshire Regt. Killed in action at Hulluch, Battle of Loos.
After school he trained as a lawyer at Lincoln’s Inn. Whilst living in London he was a very active supporter of the Radley Mission at St Peter’s, Wapping.
Aged 23. He was one of three brothers who all served in WW1. His brother, George, fell in 1918
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