Corporal Herbert Alfred Cottee

Army Number: 10875

Battalion: 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 1914 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born at Swaffham, Norfolk and lived at 65 Noel Street, Nottingham. Son of Walter Cottee, of 75 St. Anns Well Road, Nottingham. Stepson of Winifred Cottee, 245A, Ilkeston Road, Nottingham. He was a Lace Hand prior to enlisting on 7th July 1908 at Nottingham. He served in India from 7th October 1909 to 2nd September 1914. He was appointed Lance Corporal on 3rd October 1914 and went to France on 4th November 1914. Promoted Corporal 11th March 1915. He suffered gunshot wounds to his scalp on 13th May 1915 and died of wounds, on 8th June 1915, at 2nd Stationary Hospital Boulogne, France.

Commonwealth War Graves Commission shows the surname as Cottie.

Buried: Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, France. Plot 8. Row A. Grave 74.

Boulogne Eastern Cemetery, France.
Corporal H. A. Cottie grave
Corporal H. A. Cottie grave

Corporal Herbert Alfred Cottee is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.