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John Cotterill
Ancestry site Military records
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L/Sergeant John Cottrill, born and enlisted in Redditch, Service No 240510, 1 /8 Battalion,
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Worcestershire Regiment, killed in action 17 August 1917, France. Remembered on Tyne
Cot Memorial, Zonnebeke, Belgium, panels 75 to 77.
Lance Sergeant John Cottrill – source:-www.findagrave.com
Remembered on Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church and School, Redditch, WW1 war memorials.
(On the 1911 census John Basil Cottrill, born in Studley, aged 19, Warehouseman, lived with his parents Francis
James and Mary Teresa Cottrill and siblings at 44 Beoley Road, Redditch.John Basil Cottrill was born in 1892 in
the Alcester District.)
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Evening Despatch – Saturday 8 September 1917
Casualties continued
Sergeant J. B. Cotterill, whose relatives resided at 41 Beoley Road, Redditch, killed in action,
had been wounded several times previously.
British Library image www.britishnewspaperarchives.co.uk
He is remembered on the Worcestershire Regiment Roll of Honour at:-
http://www.worcestershireregiment.com/wr.php?main=inc/roll_honour_WW1_C
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