COULSON, Robert Gladstone
| Service Number: | 5509 |
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| Enlisted: | 25 May 1916, 2 years 4th infantry |
| Last Rank: | Sapper |
| Last Unit: | 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company) |
| Born: | Merewether, New South Wales, Australia, 5 September 1892 |
| Home Town: | Waratah West, Newcastle, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Methodist Sabbath School, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupation: | Shunter |
| Died: | Appendicitis, Narrabri Hospital, New South Wales, Australia, 25 July 1923, aged 30 years |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW ANGLICAN 1-23. 23. |
| Memorials: | Merewether Park Street Methodist Sabbath School Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 25 May 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Sapper, 5509, Tunnelling Companies, 2 years 4th infantry | |
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| 25 Oct 1916: | Involvement Sapper, 5509, Tunnelling Companies, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '6' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ulysses embarkation_ship_number: A38 public_note: '' | |
| 25 Oct 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Sapper, 5509, Tunnelling Companies, HMAT Ulysses, Melbourne | |
| 21 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 5509, 1st Tunnelling Company (inc. 4th Tunnelling Company), 2nd MD |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
100 years ago today, on the Friday afternoon of the 27th July 1923, Sapper Robert Gladstone Coulson, also known as Bert, 1st Australian Tunnelling Company (Reg No-5509), shunter (Port Waratah, N.S.W.) and railway guard from 35 Ranclaud Street, Merewether, New South Wales and West Narrabri, N.S.W., was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 30. ANGLICAN 1-23. 23. Not married.
Bert had died on the 25th July 1923 at the Narrabri Hospital, N.S.W.
Born at Merewether, New South Wales on the 5th September 1892 to Robert and Ellen Coulson, Bert enlisted on the 17th May 1916 with the Tunnelling Companies, October 1916 Reinforcements, at Newcastle, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria on board HMAT A38 Ulysses on the 25th October 1916.
Admitted to hospital 14.1.1918 (scabies), 9.2.1918 (scabies).
Granted leave to England from 19.2.1919 to 7.3.1919.
Bert returned home on the 12th July 1919, being discharged on the 21st August 1919.
Mr. Coulson’s name has been inscribed on the Merewether (Mitchell Park) Memorial Gates, Merewether (Park Street) Methodist Sabbath School Roll of Honour and the Merewether Loyal Junction Lodge No. 20 M.U.I.O.O.F. Roll of Honour - http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133888368. Name not inscribed on the Port Waratah Locomotive Depot Roll of Honour.
There is no indication inscribed on Bert’s headstone of his service with the 1st A.I.F., so I placed poppies and a 1914-1918 WAR label in remembrance of his sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
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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