Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of William H. Coleman a furnace man labourer, born 1871 in Banbury, Oxon., and his wife Jane, born 1873 in Barrow upon Soar, Leics. Albert Victor was born in 1893 in Hoby, Leics., his siblings were, Percy, born 1892, Leonard D., born 1896, Edith E., born 1898, Elsie M., born 1900 and Ivy M., born 1901, all his siblings were born in Hoby, Leics., in March 1901 the family home was at Hoby, Leics. In April 1911 Albert was employed as a farm cow man and was residing in the family home at Hoby, Leics., together with his father, now a farm labourer, and his mother and siblings, Leonard, Edith and Ivy, also residing with the family was his paternal uncle, Albert B. Coleman a farm wagoner, born 1882 in Oxon.