Family Search:When Private Frederick John Coles was born on 21 July 1886, in Portsea Island, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, William James Coles, was 27 and his mother, Sarah Louisa Bray, was 25. He married Ethel Mary Cobbett on 25 December 1911, in Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada. He lived in Kent, Georgian Highlands, Grey, Ontario, Canada in 1911 and Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada in 1916. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 30, his occupation is listed as machinist in Chatham, Kent, Ontario, Canada. He died on 5 November 1974, in Leamington, Essex, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 88, and was buried in Evergreen Memorial Park Cemetery, Leamington, Essex, Ontario, Canada.
Brother, William Frank Coles, reg. no. 880037 served with the CEF.
Article relating to these men.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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