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| UNIT:
Co. I 381st Infantry, 83rd
Division |
| RANK:
Private |
| BORN:
1922 |
| WHERE:
Collinsville, Madison Co., IL |
| DIED:
August 9, 1944 |
| WHERE:
St. Malo, France |
| CAUSE
OF DEATH: Killed in Action in
near St. Malo, France |
| BURIED:
St. John Cemetery - Collinsville,
IL |
| MARKER:
Private Marker with Military
Notation |
|
|
 Pvt. Wesley
“Babe” Coulson, 21, son of Mr. And Mrs.
R.E.M. Coulson, 614 East Church street, was
reported officially killed in action Wednesday,
August 9, somewhere in France according to a
telegram received by his mother, Mrs. Margaret
Coulson, Friday, August 25, from the War
Department.Young
Coulson was inducted into the Armed Forces
November 10, 1942, and received his infantry
training at Camp Roberts, Calif. He had been
serving overseas with the infantry for only one
month and a half, arriving somewhere in England,
and then moving on to France.
On Wednesday,
August 23, the Coulson family received their last
letter from their son “Babe” which was
dated and written Monday, August 7. Pvt. Coulson
told his parents that he was well and hoped that
the family was the same. He pointed out that the
Jerries were “ tough customers,” but
stated the Yanks would come out all right. He
also told them not to worry.
Pvt. Coulson, who
attended the Colinsville public schools, and went
two years to the Collinsville Township High
School, was known to all his friends as
“Babe.” He was last employed by the
Lumaghi Coal company. A brother, Corporal Leslie
Coulson, is stationed somewhere in England with
the United States Medical Corps.
|
Pvt. Wesley
Coulson 
