THE Coulthart family took a trip back in time for the recent opening of the Centenary of Anzac 2015 Not Forgotten exhibition at Nowra Museum.
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William Burgess Coulthart from Numbaa was one of the many local soldiers who served in World War I.
His family was invited to view photographs, artifacts and memorabilia collected from Rabaul, Gallipoli, Egypt, Palestine and The Western Front which told stories of local men and women during war times.
William Coulthart was the second eldest of five children and enlisted on June 28, 1915.
He was part of the 18th battalion, the fourth reinforcement sent overseas.
He returned on April 8, 1919.
His grandson David Burgess Wright said William Coulthart was a calm, generous person.
“He worked at Woodhills where Spotlight is now as a delivery man and was also a volunteer firefighter when he returned,” he said.
“He had a car crash when he was on his way to a fire where he was quite badly injured. That resulted in early Alzheimer’s.
“He died when I was about 10-years-old.”
William Coulthart’s daughter Betty Winston said her grandfather was a blacksmith for David Berry.
“He bought a piece of land David Berry offered to him, which is still farmed by the Coulthart family today in Numbaa for dairy,” she said.
“My father was one of 13 soldiers who left from Nowra’s Bomaderry Station together. They were all great friends and joined up together. They had no fear.
“Only one of the 13 didn’t make it home.”
The Not Forgotten exhibition runs at Nowra Museum until December.
