Name
Frederick Creighton Coleman
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
23/04/1917
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Norfolk Regiment
3rd Bn., attached 1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LA CHAUDIERE MILITARY CEMETERY, VIMY
IV. D. 8.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 4 Feb 1898 at Clacton-on-Sea, Essex son of Dr. Percy and Florence M. H. (Scott) Coleman of Riemore Lodge. Educated at Haileybury College 1911-15, where he swam and played rugby for the school, and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was unmarried.
Wartime Service
Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant on 7 Apr 1916 and acted as bombing instructor at Felixstowe. Entered France with the Expeditionary Force on 7 Mar 1917 and was killed in action between Vimy and Avion while leading his men into the enemy trenches.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
