Coulthard, Frank
PLACE OF BIRTH
Brisbane
OCCUPATION
Labourer
PLACE OF ENLISTMENT
Cairns
DATE OF ENLISTMENT
28/10/1916
NEXT OF KIN
James Coulthard (father) Strathpine, then Elizabeth Maud, wife, in Mossman.
LINK TO DOUGLAS SHIRE
Worked here and married a Mossman girl, then farmed here after the war.
REGIMENT 1
41st Battalion AIF
RANK
Private
CAMPAIGN 1
Western Front
OTHER INFO
Awarded the 1914/15 Star, the British War Medal and the Victory Medal
STORY OUTLINE
Frank Coulthard came from Brisbane to work on Pringle's cane farm at Shannonvale, and was a good friend of John Pringle. At weekends, Frank would go into the Queen's Hotel where he met and later married domestic Elizabeth Lematy. Aged 24, Frank enlisted in Cairns in October 1916. After his marriage, he embarked for overseas on 7th February 1917 with the 41st Battalion, arriving in France in August 1917. Two months later he was wounded in action with a gunshot to the hand. Soon after rejoining in September 1918, he was back in hospital with influenza. He returned to Australia in June 1919, returned to Mossman and bought a cane farm with three other Douglas Diggers. Frank died in 1951 aged 59, probably from the effects of mustard gas. He was survived by his wife Elizabeth (Bess), four sons John, Jim, Ron and Dick and two daughters Jean and Bette. His two grandsons Brett and Frank still own and run the farm. "
SERVICE NO
3057
