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First Name: | George William | Last Name: | COTTON |
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| Date of Death: | 18/04/1915 | Lived/Born In: | Pimlico | |
| Rank: | Private | Unit: | Royal Fusiliers1 | |
| Memorial Site: | Pimlico, St Gabriel | |||
Current Information:Age-28 13G, Peabody Avenue, Pimlico La Chapelle d'Armentieres Communal Cemetery, France
On 15th April, 1915, the 1st Royal Fusiliers battalion of 17 Brigade, 6th Division, moved into the trenches near Chapelle d’Armentières between the Lille to Boulogne road and the Lille to Armentières railway where they remained until 20th April. George Cotton was killed on 18th April, 1915, here but the battalion diary provides no further information about his death. The attrition rate among British soldiers on the Western Front was on average 300 each day and 60% of these were as a result of shellfire. When not involved in an actual battle it was either shell fire or a sniper’s bullet that caused most deaths and injuries. |
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