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Frank William Coleman
Private 1778
1st/8th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)
Frank William Coleman died on Thursday 14 October 1915, Age 19, and is remembered on the LOOS MEMORIAL, Pas de Calais, France.
He was born 12th November 1895 at 20 Hawkridge Street, Nottingham, the son of William & Mary Coleman. William Coleman was a Labourer. At the time of Frank's death, his family were living at 23 Station Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield. Notts.
Notts Free Press - In Memoriam - 18th October 1918
Coleman - Sacred to the Memory of Private F. W. Coleman, who was killed in Action, in France, October 14th 1915. Sleep on, dear son, and take thy rest, In a grave we may never see; But so long as life and memory last, We will ever think of thee. - From his loving Mother, Father, Sisters and Brothers, and Brother George in Italy.
Notts Free Press - Sutton's Roll of Honour - 10th January 1919
Coleman, Private Frank William, Lincolns.*
From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood Foresters’
FRANK W. COLEMAN Born Nottingham, Enlisted Sutton-in-Ashfield. 1/8th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.). Private 1778, Killed in Action, France & Flanders 14th Oct 1915.
Research by Helen Wilson and Heather Faulkes
*errors are common in this source.