Military service
Burial/memorial 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, Lieutenant Charles 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.
1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Digital gallery of Captain Ross Penner Cotton
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Roll of honour
Lisgar Collegiate honour roll -
Photo of Ross Penner Cotton
From the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery section of a Web site at: http://www.silentcities.co.uk -
Grave Marker
Grave Marker Photo courtesy of Wilf Schofield, England -
Entrance
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Cemetery
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Daily Colonist of February 19, 1916. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist58y60uvic#mode/1up -
Memorial
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Journal July 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Captain Ross Penner Cotton
Digital gallery of
Captain Ross Penner Cotton
Digital gallery of
Captain Ross Penner Cotton
Digital gallery of
Captain Ross Penner Cotton
Digital gallery of
Captain Ross Penner Cotton
Digital gallery of
Captain Ross Penner Cotton
Digital gallery of
Captain Ross Penner Cotton
Digital gallery of
Captain Ross Penner Cotton
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 71 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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