Richard Bernard Coffy

Serjeant

Service No. 25/951

Age 34

Died on 1 October 1916

New Zealand Machine Gun Corps

CATERPILLAR VALLEY (NEW ZEALAND) MEMORIAL

Somme, France

Son of Christopher and Theodora Ruth Coffy; husband of Mina A. Coffy, of 4, Hunia St., Marton, Wanganui. Native of Ireland.

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Richard was born in Newcastle House, Tyrrellspass, Westmeath in 1882. An only child, from a prosperous family, he arrived in NZ in 1907.

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Richard, O valiant heart, your glory came in Caterpillar Valley. Your memory hallowed in the land you loved. Harry

Richard, I do not know the precise circumstances of your death, but, as a former soldier in the 1st and the 7th Royal Warwickshire Regime...

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