COULTER, Arthur Ernest
| Service Number: | 72 |
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| Enlisted: | 31 August 1914, Served with 3MR during Boer War |
| Last Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Unit: | 1st Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Redfern, New South Wales, Australia, 9 August 1876 |
| Home Town: | Forbes, Forbes, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Well borer |
| Died: | Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 14 April 1958, aged 81 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 3-200. 42. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 31 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 72, 1st Light Horse Regiment, Served with 3MR during Boer War | |
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| 20 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 72, 1st Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Star of Victoria embarkation_ship_number: A16 public_note: '' | |
| 20 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 72, 1st Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Star of Victoria, Sydney | |
| 12 Oct 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Trooper, 72, 1st Light Horse Regiment, 2nd MD, Medically unfit |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
An Original Anzac and Boer War veteran who served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
66 years ago today, on the 16th April 1958, Trooper Arthur Ernest C Coulter, 1st Australian Light Horse Regiment (Reg No-72), well borer from "Thornleigh", Templar Street, Forbes, New South Wales and Newcastle?, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 81. ANGLICAN 3-200. 42.
Born at Redfern, New South Wales on the 9th August 1876 (says 37 years on the Attestation!) to John, died 11.8.1882, Redfern, N.S.W., age 56, and Mary Ann Coulter; husband of Hilda Emily Coulter nee Wood (married 1920, Sydney, N.S.W., died 9.6.1964, Hamilton, N.S.W., age 69, sleeping here), Arthur enlisted on the 31st August 1914 at Sydney, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board Transport A16 Star of Victoria on the 20th October 1914.
Admitted to hospital 6.8.1915 (gastritis, enteritis).
Admitted to hospital 15.10.1915 (dysentery).
Embarked for England 1.11.1915.
Admitted to hospital 6.11.1915 (dysentery).
Arthur arrived home on the 30th April 1916, being discharged medically unfit on the 12th October 1916.
Mr. Coulter’s name has been inscribed on The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall.
I have placed poppies at Arthur’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Officially commemorated - 25.8.1958
Many thanks to Helen Harvie, July 2022, for notifying me that Arthur Coulter was also in the Boer War, No. 1445, Corporal, 3rd NSW Mounted Rifles.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered “
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/
Lest We Forget.
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