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Private Joseph Coulter MM

 

Coulter

 

Private Joseph Coulter MM, 9th (North Irish Horse) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers, Service No. 41530. Formerly 6th Inniskilling Dragoons (Service Squadron), Service No. 150, and 2nd Regiment North Irish Horse. Born Fivemiletown, County Tyrone. Enlisted Fivemiletown. Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Coulter of Mullaghfad, Cooneen, Fivemiletown. Killed in action between 1-7 October 1918, aged 24. Buried at Dadizeele New British Cemetery, Moorslede, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, grave IV.B.12. The gravestone inscription reads:

41530 PRIVATE

JOSEPH COULTER. MM.

ROYAL IRISH FUSILIERS

1ST-7TH OCTOBER 1918 AGE 24

 

Image kindly provided by Steve Rogers, Project Co-ordinator of the The War Graves Photographic Project, www.twgpp.org.