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{{Personnel
|Surname and forenames=Coulthard Walter Laurence
|Army number=4454701
|Rank=Corporal.
|Date of birth=Born Durham City 1920/21.
|Age=21 at the time of his death.
|Unit=Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, T, no enlistment date but almost certainly early 1939.  Posted 8th Battalion DLI.  Posted 11th Battalion DLI - probably 1/9/1939 on embodiment.  Served with the B.E.F. in Northern France?  Served Iceland.  DIED 24/7/1942 in the UK, as a result of an accident involving a recreational transport truck.
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.
|Company/Battery=Company not yet known.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Not known but probably Rifle Section Commander.
|Joined Brigade=Probably 1/9/1939.
|Promotions=None known beyond Corporal.
|Wounded=Not as far as is known, other than his fatal injuries in the accident.
|Prisoner of War=Not so far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=24-Jul-42. Buried Grave 831 Durham (St Giles) Churchyard.
|Home address=Resident of Durham City.  Son of Walter Ernest and Ellen Ann Coulthard, Durham.  
|Image Name=
|Image Title=Corporal W L Coulthard.
|Source table=11DLI
}}