George was a well-known figure at Filey church where he sung in the choir along with several other casualties, and had spent all his life in Filey.  His parents were Mr & Mrs Thomas Coultas who resided at 5, Church St.  George was exempt from military service, presumably to fish, until the national conscription act of January 1916 when he was sworn into the 2^nd Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers.   After reaching the front he saw fighting at Arras and Passchendaele, eventually dying at the conclusion of the latter.

          A fortnight after his death his parents received a letter from his officer, which said;

          “He and another of the signalling section were killed instantaneously from the explosion of a shell during a heavy bombardment of our headquarters.  I cannot express to you the very personal loss his death means to me, for he was the finest of a very fine group of boys, always cheerful, willing, and ever a decided good influence amongst his comrades.  His death was absolutely instantaneous and a further consolation to you may be to know that we buried him in an authorised British Cemetery, where a cross will be placed, and the grave registered.  Perhaps, later on, I may e able to give you precise details as to where it lies.”

          The other Filey Casualties that also belonged to St. Oswald’s Church choir are: Herbert Ellerker, Walter Ellerker, Henry Perryman, Edward Ward, Oswald Dunn and Robert Watkinson (also verger).