Name
Cyril Seymour Couchman
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/05/1917
23
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Second Lieutenant
North Staffordshire (Prince of Wales’s) Regiment
“A” Company, 2nd/6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
THIEPVAL MEMORIAL
Pier and Face 14 B and 14 C.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Haileybury College Cloister Wall Memorial, Hertford Heath
Pre War
Born on 25 Jan 1894 in Burton-on-Trent only son of Herbert Arthur and Gertrude Couchman of Shobnall Grange, Burton-on-Trent. Educated at Haileybury College 1908-12.
Wartime Service
Enlisted AB Z/881, Royal Naval Division, Hawke Bn. on 17 Nov 1914. Served at Gallipoli from Apr 1915. Invalided to UK with gastritis on 25 Nov 1915. Obtained a commission in North Staffs. on 24 Oct 1916 and was killed in action on the Somme.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Karen Smith - Acting Director of External Relations www.haileybury.com/honour
