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  • COTTON
  • CW
  • CHARLES WILLIAM
  • Tutbury
  • Staffordshire, England
  • Son of John and May Cotton; three sisters, Annie, Rachel and May; one brother, Walter, also served, was a POW in Germany with the KRRR and died in the lead mines near Cologne;
    Husband of Edith Cotton, of 19, Mortfield Lane, Bolton, Lancashire; one daughter, Phylis;
  • Stripper and grinder at Dobsons

Military service

  • 30 August 1914, Bolton
  • 13667
  • Company Serjeant Major
  • Italian bronze medal
  • 7th Bn. Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
  • Qualifying date 17 July 1915;

Death

  • Died of wounds in the chest at 9.55 p.m.
  • 8 June 1917
  • 32
  • XV - I - 14A

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