John Taylor and Ann Norman have submitted the following:
Robert Coleman was born in Springwell in about 1893, the son of Robert and Elizabeth Coleman. He had an older brother, John, and a younger sister, May. In 1911 the family lived at 2 Springwell Terrace, Wrekenton and Robert was employed as a quarryman in a stone quarry, while his father was a coal miner.
Robert served as a Private with the 1st/5th (Territorial) Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, regimental number, 37851. He died of his wounds on the Western Front 11th April 1918.
