Reg. Hornsby has provided the following:
Sapper Samuel Coade
Unit: 257th Tunnelling Company, Royal Engineers (Soldiers Died says 50th Signal Co.)
Home / Base prior to enlistment: Millom, Cumberland
Died of wounds aged 34 on Friday 10th August 1917
Interred Adinkerke Military Cemetery, Furnes, De Panne, Belgium
Supplementary Notes:
1. The 257th Tunnelling Company was working on the construction of deep dug-outs in the sand dunes on the Belgium coast near Nieuport when, on 10th July 1917, the enemy commenced a heavy and prolonged bombardment. The area continued to be subjected to severe shelling (including the use of gas shells) for some weeks, causing many casualties. Sapper Coade was probably one of these.
2. Adinkerke Cemetery is situated near this sector, about 3km from the coast.
Christopher Coade has added the following:
Samuel Coade was my Great-Uncle and I hope to visit his grave this year in Belgium. His name is recorded on Millom War Memorial, Cumberland and also Institution of Mining Engineers, Doncaster.
He is remembered in Newcastle on NUT009
