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Corporal W.N. Coulston, Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry Cavalry IY - by: BereniceUK

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Corporal William Noble Coulston, 23rd Company 8th Battalion Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry Cavalry, Imperial Yeomanry.

The Coulston family plot is in Layton Cemetery, Blackpool. Coulston and Troopers Carter and Whalley are all named on the Blackpool roll of honour.

WILLIAM NOBLE
SON OF JOHN & MARGARET COULSTON
BORN 19 APRIL 1865. KILLED IN ACTION AT
FABER'S PEITT'S, SOUTH AFRICA, 29 MAY 1900





Quite unusual to see the surrounding ironwork in such good condition as the metal collections during WW2 removed a lot of similar work. Inscribed on the base, from which the headstone has fallen, or been removed for safety, is inscribed:-
IN LOVING MEMORY OF PRIVATE LEONARD COULSTON A.I.F.
YOUNGER SON OF THE ABOVE WILLIAM N. COULSTON
BORN 4. NOVEMBER 1896
KILLED IN ACTION IN FRANCE 7. FEBRUARY 1917

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