Lance Sergeant Henry Cottrell

Army Number: 12454

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

Born at Devonport and lived at Ulverstone, Cumbria. Son of Henry and Elizabeth Cottrell, of West Villa, Oxford Road, Guiseley, Leeds. Husband of Ethel Cottrell. He was a golf club maker prior to enlisting at Derby. He was killed in action, 9th August 1915, in the attack at Ismail Oglu Tepe, (Chocolate Hill), Gallipoli, Turkey.

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

Lance Sergeant Henry Cottrell is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Guiseley War Memorial, Guiseley, Yorkshire.
Ulverstone War Memorial, Ulverstone, Cumbria.

His brother Corporal Albert Cottrell, 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment also fell in the Great War.