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Private JOHN STAPLETON COTTON

Service Number: 14773802
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Army Ordnance Corps

Date of Death

Died 22 May 1945

Age 19 years old

Buried or commemorated at

CHELTENHAM CEMETERY, PRESTBURY

Sec. D. 1. Grave 1528.

United Kingdom

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Ernest Stapleton Cotton and Frances Cotton, of St. Marks, Cheltenham.
  • Personal Inscription BELOVED SON AND BROTHER BRAVE SOUL, UNSEEN, YET EVER NEAR
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Buried or commemorated at

CHELTENHAM CEMETERY, PRESTBURY
Gloucestershire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 188
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