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Private JAMES COTTON

Service Number: 58745
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Devonshire Regiment

Date of Death

Died 08 August 1917

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BLEUET FARM CEMETERY

I. E. 23.

Belgium

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Secondary Unit, Regiment transf. to (103891) 174th Coy. Labour Corps
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Oliver and Elizabeth Cotton, of 4 Back, 183, Scholefield St., Nechells, Birmingham.
  • Personal Inscription CHERISHED MEMORIES
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Buried or commemorated at

BLEUET FARM CEMETERY
West-Vlaanderen Belgium
Number of casualties: 452
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