Name
George Thomas Coster (MM)
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/11/1918
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
22381
Royal Field Artillery
"A" Battery, 124th Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Military Medal
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
MONT HUON MILITARY CEMETERY, LE TREPORT
X. B. 14A.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
All Saints' Church Shrine, Croxley Green,
John Dickinson & Co Memorial, Croxley Mills, Croxley Green,
Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial,
St. Mary’s Church Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
George Coster was born in 1891 and baptised on 22 March 1891 in Rickmansworth, the son of Thomas and Ellen Coster who both originated from Batchworth.
The family lived in Moor Lane, Batchworth, in 1901 and 1911. George had five siblings. Thomas was a coal heaver at the paper mill and George worked there as a repairs labourer.
Recorded as enlisting in Northwood.
Wartime Service
George Coster’s unit was attached to 37th Division.
He entered France on 31 July 1915. He had probably been wounded on the 25th October 1918, during the final advance in Flanders just before the Armistice.
He died in hospital at Le Treport on 11th November 1918, aged 27.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Tanya Britton, Brian Thomson
