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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
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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Commemorated on:
Page 570 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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ARRAS FLYING SERVICES MEMORIAL Pas de Calais, France
The Arras Flying Services Memorial is in the Faubourg-d'Amiens Cemetery, which is in the Boulevard du General de Gaulle in the western part of the town of Arras, near the Citadel, approximately 2 kilometres due west of the railway station.
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