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The CWGC record Private Charles Coy as the son of John and Eliza Coy of Rossmore, Cookstown, County Derry. |
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Private Charles Coy is listed in the Diamond War Memorial. He is both listed as being both born and living in Londonderry. This may however a reference to the county. |
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Private Charles Coy is buried at Quesnoy Farm Military Cemetery in Pas de Calais, France. |
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Private Charles Coy was serving with the 15th Battalion of the Lancashire Fusiliers when he was killed in action on 3rd April 1918. It was his 37th birthday. |
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Private Charles Coy served with the Royal Lancaster Regiment for a time. He had the service no. 202447. |
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Charles Coy enlisted in Lancaster, England. |
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The 1911 census does not list Charles as living with the family at house 2 in Rossmore, Lissan Upper. They were a farming family. |
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The 1901 census does not list Charles as living with the family at house 7 in Rossmore, Lissan Upper, County Londonderry. They were a farming family. |
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Family: John Coy, Eliza Coy, Charles Coy (born 3rd April 1881), Margaret Jane Coy (born 8th March 1883), Ellen Elizabeth Coy (born 9th March 1885), Mary Coy (born 28th February 1888, died 7th March 1888), Joseph Maurice Coy (born 12th September 1890). |
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Charles Coy was born on 3rd April 1881 in the Moneymore area. He was the eldest of five children, four surviving. |
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Charles Coy was the eldest son of John and Eliza Coy. John Coy and Eliza Woods were married on 17th January 1880 in the district of Cookstown. |
