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| Name: | Joseph Coulson |
| DOB: | uknown |
| Address: | West Terrace Boldon Colliery |
| Conflict: | WW2 |
| Service: | Warden |
| Rank: | Senior |
| Service Record: | unknown |
| Story | Joseph Coulson a senior warden who had suffered a leg injury in a colliery accident hobbled about helping to put out incendiaries. "I grabbed a stirrup pump and got some lads to use it while I filled buckets at the tap," he said I blew my whistle and I think it was that that got so many people into their Anderson shelters, and so saved them when a high explosve bomb fell I was buried in debris from shattered out houses. My steel helmet saved me when a peice of metal spouting hit me. My wife and family were saved in a Morrison shelter in the house.
Joe Coulson was the Compensation Secretary for the Boldon Miners’ Lodge and was Secretary for the Durham Miners at the Boldon Pit Joe had 2 daughters and at least 2 sons, the eldest, George was lost at sea during the 2nd WW. The family moved from West Terrace in about 1948/9 and moved to the new Council houses which had then just been completed in Shelley Avenue, Boldon Colliery.
Sunderland Daily echo 1943
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