Private 20875 Ernest COTTON

Private 20875 Ernest Cotton{gallery}Pte E Cotton{/gallery}Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
Killed in action in France and Flanders, 17th October 1915, aged 29

• Commemorated: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
  
• Awarded: 1915 Star, British War and Victory Medals
• Son of William and Eliza Cotton [nee Lees] of 170 Long Street, Atherstone.
  
• Husband of Lillian Cotton of Cotton Mill Yard, Atherstone. Married Oct Qtr 1906
• NNWFHS Memorial: Mancetter and Atherstone
  

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for Private Cotton
• NNWFHS Mancetter War Memorial Page
• NNWFHS Atherstone War Memorial Page
• Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial
• Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry

1911 Census and Family History Information

• Born at c1886 at Mancetter. Baptised 10 Oct 1886 in Mancetter
  
• Employed as a coal miner [1911]
• Lived at 1 Woods Terrace, Nuneaton [1911]