BORN HULL 20/02/1892. SON OF JOHN BUTLER AND ANNIE ELIZABETH LUSBY.
HIS WIDOW, EDITH OSBOURNE, LIVED AT 4, QUEENS AVENUE, SUBWAY STREET, HULL, 4, GARDINERS PLACE, GREAT THORNTON STREET, HULL AND 20, PRINCES TERRACE, NORNABELL STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESSES).
SECOND MATE ON TRAWLERS. SERVED ON HMS “VIGOROUS”. AWARDED THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL (DSM). DROWNED ON 01/07/1918, AGED 27.
HE IS BURIED AT LARNE, IN NORTHERN IRELAND. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “NOTHING IN MY HANDS I BRING SIMPLY TO THE CROSS I CLING, GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN”
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON ST MATHEWS CHURCH, BOULEVARD, WW1 MEMORIAL.
HI IS PICTURED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL WITH THREE PALS, ON 01/06/1916. *
First name:
WILLIAM HENRY COULSON
Military Number:
778/DA
Rank:
2nd Hand
Date Died
01/07/1918
Place died:
LARNE NEW CEMETERY, COUNTY ANTRIM, LARNE, IRELAND
Age:
27
20, PRINCES TERRACE, NORNABELL STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
