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Private JAMES HENRY COTTON

Service Number: 72720
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)

42nd Coy.

Date of Death

Died 03 September 1917

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BETHLEEM FARM WEST CEMETERY

D. 28.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of George and Eliza Jane Cotton, of 12, Oxford St., Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Yorks.
  • Personal Inscription PEACE PERFECT PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

BETHLEEM FARM WEST CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 166
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