Albert Francis (Bert) COATES

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COATES, Albert Francis

Service Number:	30408
Enlisted:	27 June 1940
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Launceston, Tasmania, 21 June 1922
Home Town:	Launceston, Launceston, Tasmania
Schooling:	Launceston State High School
Occupation:	Postal Worker
Died:	Sydney, New South Wales, 20 January 1989, aged 66 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Woronora Memorial Park, Sutherland, New South Wales https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/176117619/albert-francis-coates The New South Wales Garden of Remembrance https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/248553469/albert-f-coates
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World War 2 Service

27 Jun 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 30408
7 Dec 1945:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 30408

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Sergeant Albert Francis Coates (Service No:30408) enlisted in the RAAF on 12 June 1940 as an Aircraftman I and mustered as a Clerk - Signals. He served at Hobart, Laverton, Bradfield Park, Melbourne, Townsville, Port Moresby and Morotai and was a Sergeant attached to 1 TAF TELECOM at Discharge on 7 December 1945.

Born in 1922 in Launceston Tasmania, Bert was the eldest of four children of George Robert Coates (b1892 at Kinara Junction, Tasmania) and Ella Elizabeth Partridge (b1896 in Launceston, Tasmania). George served with the AIF in WWI and was a Horse Driver in Launceston in 1921 when he and Ella married. The couple settled in Launceston where they raised their family and George was a Postal Worker.

Bert started work in 1937 as a Telegraph Messenger with the PMGs Department in Launceston. In 1942 in Melbourne Victoria, Bert married Edna Marie Turner (b1920 in Sydney, NSW). Bert intended returning to work with the PMGs Department in Hobart following his Discharge(National Archives Australia)- he and Edna settled in Sydney NSW where Bert joined the Public Service as a Clerk. By his retirement in 1983, Bert was Assistant Director of the Department of Social Security. He was awarded an MBE in the 1983 New Years Honours List 'for service to the handicapped and veterans' (Trove). Edna died in 1972 and Bert in 1989.

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