BORN ERITH, KENT, 24/04/1891. SON OF WILLIAM AND ANNIE COULSON, OF ELSTERNWICK, BURSTWICK, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL AS PRIVATE, 21898 EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. TRANSFERRED AS PRIVATE, 142131, 18TH MACHINE GUN CORPS. HE DIED OF WOUNDS AT ROUEN HOSPITAL, ON 13/09/1918, AGED 26. HE LEFT HIS ARMY EFFECTS TO BOTH PARENTS, SISTER ANNIE, AND FRIED, GERTRUDE BUTLER.
HE IS BURIED AT ST SEVER MILITARY CEMETERY, ROUEN, FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “DEARLY LOVED”.
HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE ELSTERNWICK & DANTHORPE WW1 MEMORIAL WHERE 24 MEN SERVED AND 4 DIED IN WW1. ALSO LISTED ON THE HUMBLETON WW1 MEMORIAL PLAQUE IN ST PETER’S CHURCH (47 MENS SERVED AND 6 DIED).
Notes
- ‘Burstwick Shrine’, Hull Daily Mail, 5 December 1916
- Yorkshire Heroes, Vol I: A Journey from Hull to Withernsea, Around Hornsea and Back to Hull Again, Malcolm Mann, 1996. pp. 397-398
- ‘Burstwick Shrine Unveiled’, Hull Daily Mail, 8 December 1917
- Burstwick Primitive Methodist Shrine, dedicated December 1917. Attended by: Local Clergy/Dignitaries. Records 74 men serving in WW1.
- Burstwick WW1 Memorial, unveiled 10/07/1920. Attended by: Colonel R Hall; Local Clergy/Dignitaries; Ex-Servicemen. Records 17 died and 58 men returned.
First name:
FRANCIS HAROLD
Military Number:
142131
Rank:
Private
Date Died
13/09/1918
Place died:
St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
Age:
26
, BURSTWICK, ELSTERNWICK, EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE, UK
