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Corporal JAMES HENRY COULSON

Service Number: 4686968
Regiment & Unit/Ship

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

1/4th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 17 July 1944

Age 35 years old

Buried or commemorated at

FONTENAY-LE-PESNEL WAR CEMETERY, TESSEL

IV. C. 11.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Charles and Gertrude Coulson; husband of Doris Coulson, of Lupset, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription HE DIED THAT WE MAY LIVE HIS SACRIFICE WAS NOT IN VAIN IN HEAVEN HE WILL REIGN AND WAIT UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN
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Buried or commemorated at

FONTENAY-LE-PESNEL WAR CEMETERY, TESSEL
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 521
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