Sydney Richard (Syd) COULTER

COULTER, Sydney Richard

Service Numbers: Not yet discovered
Enlisted: 1 February 1901
Last Rank: Lieutenant
Last Unit: 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles
Born: Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, 25 May 1876
Home Town: Ballarat, Central Highlands, Victoria
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Law Clerk
Died: Killed In Action, Hlobane, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 27 August 1901, aged 25 years
Cemetery: Vryheid Cemetery
Grave 60.
Memorials: Ballarat Boer War Memorial (Queen Victoria Square), Ballarat Christ Church Cathedral Lieutenant Sydney R. Coulter Memorial Plaque, Melbourne - 5th Contingent Victorian Mounted Rifles
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Biography contributed by Maurice Kissane

Sydney Coulter was born on Ballarat in 1876. Irvine and Mary Coulter (nee Jones) were his parents. Syd had six siblings and worked as a Law Clerk. He was engaged to be married but volunteered for Active service. For he was a militia Lieutenant.  He had intended to marry after doing his bit for Queen and Empire. That was not to be for he was K.I.A. 

For he was the 5VMR Lieutenant killed in heavy fighting at Hlobane in Kwazulu-Natal.