Captain W.A. Colhoun

Date published: 09/06/1916
Killed in action: No
Information: Captain W.A. Colhoun, who has been awarded the Military Cross, is second son of the late Mr. Wm. Colhoun, proprietor of the Londonderry Sentinel, a former High Sheriff of Londonderry, and Chairman of the Ulster District of the Institute of Journalists. Captain Colhoun was educated at Foyle College, Londonderry, and passed into Trinity College, of the O.T.C. of which he was a member. He was in his second year as a medical student when he obtained a Commission in the Royal Irish Fusiliers. He has had many months' service in the Western front, and is now with his regiment at Salonika.