James Coats, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJames Coats
British skeleton racer
Date of Birth: 13-Apr-1894
Date of Death: 26-Oct-1966
Profession: skeleton racer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About James Coats
- Lieutenant Colonel Sir James Stuart Coats, 3rd Baronet MC (13 April 1894 – 26 October 1966) was a British skeleton racer who competed in the late 1940s.
- He finished seventh in the men's skeleton event at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St.
- Moritz.
- He served as President of the St.
- Moritz Tobogganing Club from 1954 to 1956. Coats was awarded the Military Cross in 1918.Coats was a retired Lieutenant Colonel of the British Army at the time of the 1948 Winter Olympics.
- During World War II he commanded the Coats Mission charged with evacuating the royal family in the result of a German invasion.
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