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Military service
Service number:
57986
Age:
34
Rank:
Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
20th Bn.
Birth:
February 19, 1882
Penzance, England
Enlistment:
January 8, 1915
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
July 17, 1916
6th Field Ambulance
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
K. 32.
Additional information
Son of Thomas and Mary Ann Cotton, of Toronto, Ontario.
Additional citations
1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Corporal Thomas Cotton
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Cenotaph Cobalt Ontario
Cenotaph, Major Edward J Holland VC Memorial Park, Cobalt Ontario, Photo by Ken Riley -
Cemetery
T Cotton and Canadian comrades, Dickenbusch New Military Cemetery, Belgium, Photo by Ken Riley -
Inscription
WWI Fallen Cenotaph Inscription, Major Edward J Holland VC Memorial Park, Cobalt Ontario, Photo by Ken Riley -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Grave Marker
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Dickebushe Cemetery's Entrance
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Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of THOMAS COTTON
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
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 367 of 900. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram July 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram August 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Corporal Thomas Cotton
Digital gallery of
Corporal Thomas Cotton
Digital gallery of
Corporal Thomas Cotton
Digital gallery of
Corporal Thomas Cotton
Digital gallery of
Corporal Thomas Cotton
Digital gallery of
Corporal Thomas Cotton
Digital gallery of
Corporal Thomas Cotton
Digital gallery of
Corporal Thomas Cotton
Digital gallery of
Corporal Thomas Cotton
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 71 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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