Lance-Corporal Coates

Lance-Corporal Coates does not appear in Nurse Oliver's album but he was a patient at Beechlands. His name appears in an East Sussex News article from 13th October 1916:

NEWICK – CONCERT IN AID OF ‘OUR DAY’

… the performers consisted of convalescent soldiers from The Beechland Auxiliary Hospital and several ladies, for the most part from Brighton… [Performers mentioned: Private McWilliams, Private Gordon, Private Raynor–Smith, Lance-Corporal Beeching, Private Tomkinson, Lance-Corporal Coates.  Proceeds amounted to £10] “Performers took tea together at the Beechland Hospital, after which the programme was repeated there for the benefit of those who were inacpable of going to hear it at the Reading Room.

Nothing else is currently known about this man.