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Lieutenant EDWIN COTTAM

Service Number: 153764
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

Date of Death

Died 07 May 1944

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY

12. C. 5.

Myanmar

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 55 Sqn., Indian Observer Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Harry Durham Cottam and Janet Cottam, of Moorgate, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription TO LIVE IN HEARTS WE LEAVE BEHIND IS NOT TO DIE
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Buried or commemorated at

TAUKKYAN WAR CEMETERY
Myanmar
Number of casualties: 6445
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