Geoffrey Horsman Coles (13 March 1871 – 27 January 1916) was a British sport shooter who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics.[1]
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Born | Hastings, East Sussex, England | 13 March 1871||||||||||||||
Died | 27 January 1916 Festubert, France | (aged 44)||||||||||||||
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Sport | Sports shooting | ||||||||||||||
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In the 1908 Olympics he won a bronze medal in the team pistol event and was 11th in the individual pistol event.[2]
Coles was killed in action during the First World War, serving as a private with the Royal Fusiliers near Festubert.[3] He was buried at Brown's Road Military Cemetery nearby.[4]
See also
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edit- ^ "Sports Reference: Geoffrey Coles". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 2014-02-23.
- ^ "Geoffrey Coles". Olympedia. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
- ^ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 7 November 2014. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
- ^ Coles, Geoffrey Horsman, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Retrieved 1 March 2010
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