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Major JOHN ANTHONY COTTERELL

Service Number: 153092
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment)

Date of Death

Died 25 September 1944

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ENSCHEDE EASTERN GENERAL CEMETERY

Joint grave 200-201.

Netherlands

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. 1st Parachute Brigade.
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Brother of Geoffrey Cotterell, of Eastbourne, Sussex.
  • Personal Inscription WRITER REMEMBERED WITH LOVE
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Buried or commemorated at

ENSCHEDE EASTERN GENERAL CEMETERY
Overijssel Netherlands
Number of casualties: 61
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