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Company Serjeant Major WILLIAM FREDERICK COTTON

Service Number: 6444
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Scots Fusiliers

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 09 July 1917

Age 39 years old

Buried or commemorated at

ROCLINCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY

III. C. 24.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William and Elizabeth Cotton, of Birmingham; husband of Beatrice Cotton, of 257, Icknield Port Rd., Ladywood, Birmingham.
  • Personal Inscription REST IN PEACE
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Buried or commemorated at

ROCLINCOURT MILITARY CEMETERY
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 920
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