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Personal data

• Name COTTON
• Initials CW
• First name CHARLES WILLIAM
• Place of birth Tutbury
• Country Staffordshire, England
• Family 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;
• Profession Stripper and grinder at Dobsons

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 30 August 1914, Bolton
• Service number 13667
• Rank Company Serjeant Major
• Medals Italian bronze medal
• Regiment and unit 7th Bn. Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
• Other data related to military career Qualifying date 17 July 1915;

Death

• Type of wounds Died of wounds in the chest at 9.55 p.m.
• Date of death 8 June 1917
• Died at the age of 32
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XV - I - 14A

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