| Walter Coulter | |
| Fullname: | Walter McFarlane Coulter |
| Birth Date: | 1891 |
| Birth Place: | Frederiksted, Danish West Indies[1] |
| Death Date: | 20 May |
| Death Place: | Croisilles, France |
| Position: | Right half |
| Years1: | 1912–1915 |
| Clubs1: | Queen's Park |
| Caps1: | 1 |
| Goals1: | 0 |
Walter McFarlane Coulter MC (1891 – 20 May 1917) was a Scottish amateur footballer who played in the Scottish League for Queen's Park as a right half.
Coulter grew up the son of a sugarcane planter in the Danish West Indies 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. By spring 1915, half a year after the outbreak of the First World War, Coulter had enlisted in the Highland Light Infantry. He was commissioned as a temporary second lieutenant on 28 September 1915 and was awarded the Military Cross for actions on 7 February 1917:
Captain Coulter was killed in an attack on Croisilles on 20 May 1917.[2] He is commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
| Season | League | Scottish Cup | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| Queen's Park | 1913–14[3] | Scottish First Division | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Career total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||