Corporal Albert Cottrell

Army Number: 12452

Battalion: 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born in Dublin, Ireland and lived at Guiseley, Yorkshire. Son of Henry and Elizabeth Cottrell, of West Villa, Oxford Road, Guiseley. He enlisted at Derby and was killed in action, 9th August 1915, aged 20, in the attack at Ismail Oglu Tepe, (Chocolate Hill), Gallipoli, Turkey.

Commemorated: Helles Memorial, Turkey. Panel 150 to 152.

Corporal Albert Cottrell is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Guiseley War Memorial, Guiseley, Yorkshire.

His brother Lance Sergeant Henry Cottrell, 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War,