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Corporal WILLIAM LESLIE COTTER

Service Number: 4857492
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Leicestershire Regiment

Date of Death

Died 31 December 1942

Age 27 years old

Buried or commemorated at

YABA CEMETERY

Plot 4. Row D. Grave 3.

Nigeria

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  • Secondary Unit, Regiment attd. West African Reconnaissance Regiment, R.W.A.F.F.
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Fanny Cotter, of Smethwick, Staffordshire.
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Buried or commemorated at

YABA CEMETERY
Nigeria
Number of casualties: 452
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