Alfred Sutton ('King Cole') COLEMAN

COLEMAN, Alfred Sutton

Service Number: 3262
Enlisted: 10 July 1915
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 5th Infantry Battalion
Born: Prahran, Vic., 1888
Home Town: Footscray, Maribyrnong, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Labourer
Died: Killed in Action, Pozieres, Somme Sector, France, 25 July 1916
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)
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World War 1 Service

10 Jul 1915: Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3262, 5th Infantry Battalion
11 Oct 1915: Involvement Private, 3262, 5th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Nestor embarkation_ship_number: A71 public_note: ''
11 Oct 1915: Embarked Private, 3262, 5th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Nestor, Melbourne

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of George and Margaret COLEMAN

CPL. A. S. COLEMAN
Known familiarly among his boy hood's friends as "King Cole" Cpl. Alfred Sutton Coleman was a popular member of the Junior Football and other clubs before enhlstment. He joined the 5th Battalion in October, 1915, and took part in the evacuation of Gallipoli and events on the Peninsula immediately prior to that. After this he spent several months in Egypt arid after more months spent fighting in France was posted missing after the Pozieres battle, official word not reaching his mother, Nurse Williams, Victoria st., until last month. Mrs Williams, how ever, in the meantime had heard through the Red Cross of her only son's death, for he had died in the arms of a mate who sent the news along. Cpl. Coleman was 28 years of age, an iron worker by trade, having worked with McKay's and Laughton's.

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