Coulson FRYER

02 November 1917

FRYER – October 22nd 1917, killed in action on the Western Front, Gunner Coulson Fryer, R.F.A., husband of Mrs. Fryer, 11, Sun Street, Cowling.

02 November 1917

COWLING – GUNNER FRYER KILLED

Mrs. Fryer, 11, Sun Street, Cowling, has received an intimation from a chaplain in France that her husband, Gunner Coulson Fryer, R.F.A., was killed instantly on October 22nd by the bursting of shell on his Battery, while they were proceeding to take up a frontal position. The Battery suffered many casualties, the victims being buried together in the British Cemetery near Ypres on October 24th.

Gunner Fryer joined up on the 6th of February last, and went out to France on the 28th of May. Previous to joining up he was employed by Mr. Frank Snowden, Raikes Hall Poultry Farm, Cowling.

09 November 1917

COWLING – The Late Lieut. Hall-Watt

On Sunday morning at the Parish Church, the Vicar conducted a memorial service to the memory of the late Second Lieutenant R. Hall-Watt of the Grenadier Guards. The choir sang the anthem ‘Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace’. The deceased officer was the eldest son and heir of the late Mr. E. B. B. Hall-Watt, of Bishop Burton, Beverley, and of Carr Head, Cowling. He was killed in action on October 13th in Flanders, and was 19 years of age. Educated at Eton and Sandhurst, the deceased was posted to the Grenadier Guards in the early part of this year, and went out to France in August last. His decease is greatly lamented in the district, as it was hoped when he came of age he would have taken a personal interest in the Carr Head Estate.

The ‘Last Post’ was sounded by the buglers from the Church Lads’ Brigade, Colne. Col. Eyre and Mrs. Eyre (of Bishop Burton Hall, Beverley, the mother of the deceased officer), and also Mr. A. Hall-Watt, the deceased’s only brother, were represented by Mr. T. Washington Chambers, of Brighouse, the agent for the Carr Head and Morton Estates of the trustees of the late E.B.B. Hall-Watt, of Bishop Burton, the father of the deceased. A similar memorial service has been held at Bishop Burton Church on the 1st inst. The service at Cowling was also in memory of Gunner Coulson Fryer, Privates William Garner, Walter Snowden, and George Thorpe, all of Cowling, who have recently laid down their lives for King and Country. The Vicar alluded in feeling terms to the great loss which the relatives of the deceased officer and men had sustained.

25 October 1918

FRYER – In loving memory of a dear son and brother, Gunner Coulson Fryer, R.F.A., who was killed in action October 22nd. 1917.

Somewhere in France, in a lonely grave,
Beside his comrades he is laid;
A loving son, a brother dear,
None at his grave to shed a tear.
No one who knew him need ever be told,
A warmer heart death never made cold;
His cheery way, his smiling face,
There’s none can fill our dear son and brother’s place.

From his loving father and family.