Corporal Luke Coleman

Corporal Luke Coleman

Army Number: 200904

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born and lived at Crich, Derbyshire. Son Aaron and Elizabeth Coleman, of Hills Cottages, Crich. He was a Limestone Quarryman prior to enlisting on 29th October 1914 at Crich and was appointed Lance Corporal on 1st January 1915. He went to France on 25th June 1915 and was promoted to Corporal on 1st November 1915. He was attached to 139/2 Trench Mortar Battery on 22nd April 1916 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, during the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Buried: Gommecourt Wood New Cemetery, Foncquevillers, France. Plot 1, Row G, Grave 2.

Gommecourt Wood New Cemetery, Foncquevillers, France.
Corporal Luke Coleman grave

Corporal Luke Coleman is also commemorated on the following local memorials :-
Glebe Field Community Centre War Memorial, Crich, Derbyshire.
St. Mary’s Church War Memorial, Crich, Derbyshire.
Crich (St. Mary) Churchyard War Memorial, Crich, Derbyshire.