BORN BROOMFLEET, YORKSHIRE 1899. SON OF GEORGE RANDELL COULTISH AND MINNIE COULTISH, OF BROOMFLEET LANDING, NEWPORT, BROUGH. SON OF A BRICKYARD LABOURER. BROTHER OF FRED , ALBERT AND EMILY LEIGHTON. A FARM LABOURER. HE ENLISTED BEVERLEY, ON 15/08/1917, AGED 18 YEARS AND 6 MONTHS. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 3 INCHES TALL, 122 LBS WEIGHT, 34.5 INCH CHEST. POSTED TO FRANCE ON 09/10/1917. TRANSFERRED TO THE 2/5TH WEST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 27/11/1917, AGED 18. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER GEORGE. HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE CAMBRAI MEMORIAL, LOUVERVAL, FRANCE.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 20/12/1917. *
First name:
GEORGE
Military Number:
52246
Rank:
Private
Date Died
27/11/1917
Place died:
Cambrai Memorial, Louverval, Nord, France
Age:
18
BROOMFLEET LANDING, BROOMFLEET, BROUGH, EAST RIDING OF YORKSHIRE, United Kingdom
Place Buried
