Robert Silvester COFFIN

  Noted events in his life were:

• Military Service, 1914, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. Attested for ASC (Welsh) Lyndhurst, North Road, Cardiff, carpenter 28.11.14 T4/037042
29.11.14 driver 1st Div Welsh Army Corps appointed a/m/cpl 15.5.15 reduced to driver 29.6.15
Home until 21.12.15 France 22.12.15 to 12.5.19 Home 10.6.19
British War Medal Victory Medal
Forfeited days pay and badge after being duly warned for convoy duty absent from camp from 08.00 to 10.30 thereby throwing the duy on another soldier 3.10.17

28 days pay absent from stable parade 26.12.17
Forfeit 3 days pay neglect of duty for >>>??? rifle on parade 23.3.18
haing a ....??? dirty rifle on parade.

7 days C/O for talking and laughing on parade

• Military Service, 1914, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. Enlisted Army Service Corps Ser.No. 10681 - 19.8.1914. Father Henry Coffin. Discharged 28.8.1914 having made a miss statement as to age on enlistment.

• Census, 1921, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. Lyndhurst North Road Gabalfa with parents single 23y 7m carpenter

• Census, 1939, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. Tudor House, Llandennis Avenue, Cardiff builder (master)

• Probate, 1960, Cardiff, Glamorganshire. Robert Sylvester Coffin of 16 Hollybush Road, Cyncoed, Cardiff died 15 December 1957 at Cardiff Golf Club, Cyncoed, Probate Llandaff 22 March to Dorothy Florence Coffin widow and Edgar Theodore Shephers chartered accountant Effects £33103 3s 1d

Robert married Dorothy Florence DAVIES in 1922 in Cardiff, Glamorganshire. (Dorothy Florence DAVIES was born on 17 May 1901 and died on 19 Mar 1988 in Cardiff, Glamorganshire.)