Leslie Coulson

Leslie Coulson (19 July 1889 – 8 October 1916) was an English journalist and a poet of the First World War.

[1] Coulson was born in Kilburn, London, his father being a columnist for The Sunday Chronicle.

[3] He carried out his training in Malta, then served in Egypt and Gallipoli before arriving at the Western Front in 1916.

[5] He is buried at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Grove Town Cemetery near the village of Méaulte.

His collected poems were published posthumously in 1917, edited by his father, and sold 10,000 copies in the first year.