Walter Coulter
Walter McFarlane Coulter MC was a Scottish amateur football right half who played in the Scottish League for Queen's Park.Personal life
Coulter grew up in the Danish West Indies, the son of a sugarcane planter and was sent to live in Scotland in 1894. He was educated at Thornliebank School, the High School of Glasgow and the Royal College of Science and Technology. After leaving school, Coulter served an engineering apprenticeship and prior to the First World War, he worked in the drawing office at Fairfield Shipyard. Coulter served as a captain in the Highland Light Infantry during the First World War and was killed in an attack on Croisilles on 20 May 1917. Two months previously, he had won the Military Cross for "conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty". Coulter is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.Career statistics
