COLTMAN, William Hall Denley
(Service number 12/1025)
| First Rank | Private | Last Rank | Sergeant |
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Birth
| Date | 24/02/1892 | Place of Birth | Waimate, South Canterbury |
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Enlistment Information
| Date | Age | ||
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| Address at Enlistment | Devonport, Auckland | ||
| Occupation | Clerk | ||
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| Marital Status | Single | ||
| Next of Kin | William COLTMAN (father), Queen Street, Auckland | ||
Military Service
| Served with | NZ Armed Forces | Served in | Army |
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Embarkation Information
| Body on Embarkation | Main Body | ||
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| Unit, Squadron, or Ship | Auckland Infantry Battalion | ||
| Date | 16 October 1914 | ||
| Transport | Star of India or Waimana | ||
| Embarked From | Destination | Suez, Egypt | |
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| Last Unit Served With | Machine Gun Corps | ||
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Award Circumstances and Date
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Prisoner of War Information
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Death
| Date | 14 January 1946 | Age | 53 years |
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| Place of Death | Hamilton | ||
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| Memorial or Cemetery | Hamilton East Cemetery | ||
| New Zealand Memorials | Oddfellows, Devonport, roll of Honour (held in Auckland Museum); St David's Church, Grafton, Auckland | ||
Biographical Notes
William Hall Denley Coltman was the second son of William Coltman and his second wife, Mary Jane née Russell. William Coltman, senior, was Lieutenant of Waimate Rifle Volunteers in 1894. Young William was educated at Waimate and Temuka schools before the family moved north. He married Gladys Mary Wyatt on 11 June 1918 at Barkby, Leicestershire. William and Gladys had one son before they divorced. In 1932 William married Susan Eunice Aitchison. The names William Coltman and Cyril Coltman are recorded on the Waimate Knox Church Sunday School roll of honour, which was unveiled on 26 March 1916. Late in 1915 the "time had come to set down in order the names of ex-pupils of the Waimate Presbyterian Sunday School who had become soldiers of the Empire in the great fight for home and justice." William's brother Cyril Warren Coltman was killed in action in 1916 in France.
Sources
Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [04 February 2020]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [04 February 2020]; Hamilton East Cemetery headstone transcription [07 February 2020]; Waimate Daily Advertiser, 27 March 1916 (Papers Past) [03 February 2020]
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