Notts Free Press, 14th July 1916
COTTON A. E.
Albert Edward Cotton
Private 13988
2nd Bn., Lincolnshire Regiment
Albert Edward Cotton died on Saturday 17th July 1915, Age 33, and was buried in the ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY, Pas de Calais, France.
He was born c1892 at Pensnett, Worcestershire, and was the son of Samuel and Mary Ann Cotton. Samuel Cotton was a native of Pensnett, Worcs, and at the time of the 1901 census the family were living in Sutton-in-Ashfield, although some of the younger children gave Danesmoor, Derbyshire as their birthplace.
Albert Edward Cotton was also the husband of Ruth Livinia Cotton, of 22 Nag's Head Yard, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts.
Notts Free Press, 14th July 1916
From
‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 –
Lincolnshire Regiment’
COTTON
Albert Edward. Born Danesmoor, Derbys,
enlisted Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts. 2nd Bn.,
Lincolnshire Regt. Private
13988, Died of wounds, France & Flanders, 17th July 1915. Formerly
13851, Leics Regt.
Research by Heather Faulkes
