Son of Walter John and Ethel Matilda Coltman, of Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Educated at King Edward's School, Johannesburg, Potchefstroom Agricultural College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Military data
Rank
Lt.
Regiment / Unit
Coldstream Guards
Date of death
Age
22
Cemetery / Memorial
Cambrai Memorial, Louverval, Panel 2
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Secondary unit: attd. 2nd Coy. Machine Gun Guards
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'The Yeoville Lamp' - Yeoville,Transvaal, South Africa Branch. Endowed on 02.11.1927. First lit at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on 03.12.1927, by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales. "In memory of Frank Aubrey Jones, C.M.G., D.S.O., Lt.-Col. Bernafay Wood, France, 11.7.1916; of Dudley Beresford Hodd (sic) Fynn, Pte., 3rd South African Infantry. France 16.7.1916; of George Pagnell Leslie, Pte., 3rd South African Infantry. France, 16.7.1916 (sic); and of R. Lester Coltman, Lt., Coldstream Guards. Cambrai, 27.11.1917.
