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Second Lieutenant William Martin Vernon Cotton

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Military service

Service number: 1246
Age: 19
Rank: Second Lieutenant
Force: Air Force
Unit/Regiment: Royal Flying Corps
Birth: June 6, 1897 Exeter, England
Enlistment: November 10, 1914 Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death: December 21, 1916

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Son of Lt. Col. G. W. V. Cotton (75th Regt.) and Sarah Cotton, of Hove, Brighton, England. Second Lieutenant Cotton was discharged from the Canadian Expeditionary Force to accept a commission and join the Royal Flying Corps on 3 May 1916.

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Page 570 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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