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Private JOHN WILLIAM COTTON

Service Number: 20148
Regiment & Unit/Ship

The King's (Liverpool Regiment)

12th Bn.

Date of Death

Died 24 August 1916

Buried or commemorated at

DANTZIG ALLEY BRITISH CEMETERY, MAMETZ

I. B. 23.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Thomas and Elizabeth Cotton, of Manchester; husband of Georgiana Cotton, of 20, Wellesley St., West Gorton, Manchester.
  • Personal Inscription HE FOUGHT THE GOOD FIGHT
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Buried or commemorated at

DANTZIG ALLEY BRITISH CEMETERY, MAMETZ
Somme France
Number of casualties: 2053
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