Private William Cotterill

Army Number: 200402 (formerly 2201)

Battalion: 2/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Derby. son of William and Rose Ellen Cotterill, of 41, Westwick Street, Ilkeston. Derbyshire. Husband of Daisy Chilton (formerly Cotterill), of Cookly Villas, 157A, Nottingham Road, Ilkeston. He was a fitter’s labourer at Stanton Ironworks prior to enlisting on 26th June 1914 at Ilkeston. He went to France on 26th February 1917 and was killed in action, 26th September 1917, aged 24 in the attack on Otto Farm at Gravenstafel, near Ypres, Belgium.

Commemorated: Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium. Panel 99 to 102 and 162 to 162A.

Private William Cotterill is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Ilkeston War Memorial, Ilkeston, Derbyshire.