The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private W Cottrell

Photograph by "Lynn Brattan"

Private William COTTRELL, 242056, (5558), 1st Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, death assumed on or since 4th October 1917.

Born Pamber, Hampshire, son of George & Eliza Ann Cottrell, Tadley Hill, near Basingstoke, Hampshire.

29th March 1902, Tadley, near Basingstoke, married Rose Ann Cottrell.

Children - William George Cottrellborn 1st November 1902, Tadley; Frank Cottrell, born 6th August 1904, Tadley; Frederick Walter Cottrell, born 3rd March 1908, Tadley.

1911 Census - Back Lane, Tadley, near Basingstoke - William Cottrell, head, age 33, married, bricklayer journeyman, born Tadley, Hampshire; Rose Cottrell, wife, age 30, married 9 years, 3 children, all still alive, born Tadley, Hampshire; William George Cottrell, son, age 8, school, born Tadley, Hampshire; Frank Cottrell, son, age 7, school, born Tadley, Hampshire; Frederick Cottrell, son, age 3, born Tadley, Hampshire.

Enlisted Basingstoke, Hampshire, age 39 years & 16 days, height 5ft 1½ inches, 120lbs. Formerly bricklayer.

Home 6th June 1916 to 11th September 1917; BEF 12th September 1917 to 4th October 1917.

6th June 1916, enlisted; 7th June 1916, to Army Reserve; 31st January 1917, mobilized; 1st February 1917, posted 2/5th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; posted 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 12th September 1917, Folkestone, embarked; 12th September 1917, Boulogne, disembarked; 12th September 1917, arrived 40 Infantry Base Depot, posted 3/4thBattalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 16th September 1917, posted 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 18th September 19147, joined Battalion; 4th October 1917, wounded in action & posted missing.

17th June 1918, pension of 29/7 a week awarded to widow and three children.

27th November 1919, Statement of Relatives - Widow - Rose Ann Cottrell, Back Lane, Tadley, near Basingstoke; Children - William George Cottrell, Back Lane, Tadley, near Basingstoke; Frank Cottrell,Back Lane, Tadley, near Basingstoke ; Frederick Walter Cottrell, Back Lane, Tadley, near Basingstoke; Father - George Cottrell, Tadley Hill, near Basingstoke; Mother - Eliza Ann Cottrell, Tadley Hill, near Basingstoke; Brothers - Charles George Cottrell, age 39?, New Bond, Tadley, near Basingstoke; Percy John Cottrell, age 32?, Tadley Hill, near Basingstoke; Thomas Henry Cottrell, age 25, Tadley Hill, near Basingstoke; Sisters - ???? Alice Edmonds, age 46, No.7, East Street, Reading; Rose Mary Cottrell, age 38 Borman? Brook, Tadley Hill, near Basingstoke; Mary Agnes Cottrell, age 36, Tadley Hill, near Basingstoke; Ellen Kate Cottrell, age 31, Bookers? Slip?, Tadley Hill, near Basingstoke; Ethel Mary Cottrell, age 27, Charlton, 49 Wimbourne Road, Bournemouth?; Olive? Louise Cook, age 23, Tadley Hill, near Basingstoke.

29th October 1921, Probate - Cottrell William, of Back Lane, Tadley near Basingstoke, Hampshire. Private 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, died 3rd October 1917, in Belgium, Administration (with will) London 29th October to Rose Ann Cottrell, widow. Effects £223.

Buried at Tyne Cot Cemetery, LII. D. 4., Zonnebeke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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