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Private WILLIAM COTTON

Service Number: 20176
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Gloucestershire Regiment

12th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 17 May 1916

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

HABARCQ COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

I. H. 2.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Husband of Annie Cotton, of 41, North St., Bedminster, Bristol.
  • Personal Inscription EVER REMEMBERED BY HIS LOVING WIFE AND DAUGHTERS GLADYS AND IVY
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Buried or commemorated at

HABARCQ COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 572
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