COULTAS, George Augustus
| Service Number: | 1244 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 July 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 32nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Richmond, Victoria, Australia, 13 July 1883 |
| Home Town: | Maylands, Bayswater, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Porter |
| Died: | Perth, Western Australia, Australia, 10 June 1947, aged 63 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
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World War 1 Service
| 19 Jul 1915: | Enlisted Private, 1244, 32nd Infantry Battalion | |
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| 18 Nov 1915: | Involvement Private, 1244, 32nd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '17' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Geelong embarkation_ship_number: A2 public_note: '' | |
| 18 Nov 1915: | Embarked Private, 1244, 32nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Geelong, Adelaide | |
| 22 Feb 1919: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 1244, 32nd Infantry Battalion, per Anchises | |
| 3 Jun 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1244, 32nd Infantry Battalion |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Chris Buckley
George was the fifth of six children of John Coultas (born 1850 in Yorkshire, England) and his second wife Mary Russell Wilson (born 1850 in Belfast, Ireland). John, a Tailor, and Mary married in Belfast, Ireland in 1874 and in 1880 arrived in Melbourne, Victoria. The family moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1900, where John was a Draper.
George, born in Melbourne, Victoria, attended Geelong College and with his parents and siblings, was living in Perth, WA in 1901 and working as a Tailor. Two of George's brothers wee also Tailors in perth, WA. George married Amy May Street (born 1884 in Adelaide, South Australia) in 1904 in Perth, WA. George and Amy settled in East Perth where George worked as a Tailor and Amy as a Tailoress.
By 1915, when George enlisted in the AIF, he was a Porter with the WA Government Railways. He served as a Private (Service No: 1244) with 32 Australian Infantry Battalion D Coy in France, and was Discharged in June 1919.
Returning to Perth, George and Amy settled in Maylands and George worked with the WA Government Railways as a Pitman and Painter's Assistant. By 1928 he resumed work as a Tailor, and died in 1947. Amy remarried and died in 1963.