| 23/01/2021 |
Rifleman William Coleman arrived in France on 3rd October 1915. |
| 23/01/2021 |
Rifleman William Coleman is commemorated on Comber War Memorial and on the WW1 Roll of Honour in Second Comber Presbyterian Church. |
| 23/01/2021 |
Rifleman William Coleman is buried in Tyne Cot Cemetery in Belgium. |
| 23/01/2021 |
Initially he had no known grave but in 1921 his body was found, exhumed and reinterred. His remains were identified by means of his identity disc. |
| 23/01/2021 |
The 1911 census lists William as age 20, living at house 2 in Ballyloughan, Comber, Down. He was a farm servant, working for Joseph and Mary Berkeley. |
| 23/01/2021 |
The 1901 census lists William as age 10, living at the Olivet Boarding School in Ballygowan. County Down. The home was an orphanage. |
| 23/01/2021 |
William Coleman was born in Aughnacloy, County Tyrone about 1891. However, there does not seem to be a GRONI record of this. |
| 30/12/2015 |
Rifleman William Coleman was serving with the 13th Battalion of Royal Irish Rifles when he was killed in action in France in 16th August 1917. |
| 30/12/2015 |
William Coleman enlisted in Comber, County Down. |
