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Military service
Age:
25
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Field Artillery
Division:
2nd Brigade
Birth:
December 21, 1890
Kingston, Ontario
Enlistment:
September 3, 1914
Valcartier, Québec
Death:
June 2, 1916
Sanctuary Wood, France
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IX. A. 7.
Additional information
Son of Jessie (nee Penner) and the late Major General William Henry Cotton, of Pinehurst, Almonte, Ontario.
Brother of Private Henry (Harry) Cotton, who died while serving with the Royal Canadian Regiment, and Captain Gordon Ross Penner Cotton, who died while serving with the Canadian Field Artillery.
Brother of Mary Eleanor, Elsie, and Dorothy who was a nursing sister in England, France and Russia during the First World War.
Additional citations
1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal and Order of St. George, 4th Class (Russia).
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Charles Penner Cotton
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Newspaper Clipping
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Honour Roll
Lisgar Collegiate honour roll -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Roll of Service
From the "University of Toronto / Roll of Service 1914-1918", published in 1921. -
Photo of Charles Penner Cotton
From the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery section of a Web site at: http://www.silentcities.co.uk -
Photo of Charles Cotton
From: The Varsity Magazine Supplement published by The Students Administrative Council, University of Toronto 1918. <P> Submitted for the Soldiers' Tower Committee, University of Toronto, by Operation Picture Me. -
Grave Marker
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The Soldiers' Tower
The Soldiers' Tower was built at University of Toronto between 1919-1924 in memory of those lost to the University in the Great War. The names of the fallen were carved on the Memorial Screen seen at photo left. Photo: K. Parks -
Memorial Room
Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower, University of Toronto. Photo by David Pike, 2010; courtesy of Alumni Relations. -
Inscription
Inscription in Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower. The carillon was installed in 1927. Originally there were 23 bells. Alumni and friends donated funds for bells in memory of those who fell in the Great War. Dedications are carved high on the walls of the Memorial Room. Bell XV is dedicated: "Alpha Delta Phi". Photo courtesy of Alumni Relations. -
Memorial
Inscription in Memorial Room, Soldiers' Tower. The carillon was installed in 1927. Originally there were 23 bells. Alumni and friends donated funds for bells in memory of those who fell in the Great War. Dedications are carved high on the walls of the Memorial Room. Bell XXI is dedicated: " 'Extol, ye bell, the virtue of our valorous men.' Alumni Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering". Photo courtesy of Alumni Relations. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of Charles Penner Cotton
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial Stained Glass
Ashbury College, Ottawa stained glass war memorial window Sir Galahad -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CORBI TO COZNI. Microform Sequence 23; Volume Number 31829_B016732. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 167. Page 361 of 900. -
Memorial Plaque
Memorial Plaque – Lt. Charles Penner Cotton is remembered on this bronze memorial plaque. The plaque is found in the foyer of the Alpha Delta Phi Chapter House at 94 Prince Arthur Avenue, Toronto, ON. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram June 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram June 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Honour roll
In memory of the Ashbury College alumni and staff who gave their lives in Word War I, World War II and the Korean War. Plaque erected in the Ashbury College Chapel, 362 Mariposa Avenue, Ottawa -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Journal June 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
From the British Whig, a Kingston, Ontario newspaper. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Charles Penner Cotton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Charles Penner Cotton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Charles Penner Cotton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Charles Penner Cotton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Charles Penner Cotton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Charles Penner Cotton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Charles Penner Cotton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Charles Penner Cotton
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Charles Penner Cotton
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 71 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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