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• Name COIT
• Initials HA
• First name HENRY AUGUSTUS
• Place of birth Concord
• Country New Hampshire, U.S.A.
• Family Son of Joseph Howland Coit and Adeline Balch Coit, of 52, Broadway, New York; his father was president of the New York publishing house of Moffat, Yard and Company.
• Education St. Paul's; Harvard University
• Extra info Was the only American in his company

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment December 1915, Montreal, Canada
• Service number 487429
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry
• Division - Brigade 7th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 3rd Canadian Division
• National force C.E.F.

Death

• Wounded 2 July 1916, struck by a motor lorry near Ypres
• Type of wounds Died of accidental injuries in n° 3 Can.CCS (right leg amputated 4 August, left leg amputated 6 August); gunshot wounds both knees and foot (war diary n°3 Can CCS)
• Date of death 7 August 1916
• Died at the age of 28
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery VII - D - 28

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