Bath: Bath Abbey Cemetery (Somerset)
John St Clair Cotterell
Information from the CWGC database:
COTTERELL, J St. C
Rank: Private
Service No: 898307
Date of Death: 13/05/1917
Regiment/Service: 10th Bn., Canadian Infantry
Cemetery: Bath Abbey Cemetery, Prior Park Road, Bath
Grave Reference: East border. 4. E. 39.
Link: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/393930/COTTERELL,%20J...
Cotterell's attestation papers, made available by Library and Archives Canada, state that he was born in Bristol, England on 17 September 1891. At the time he joined the CEF, he was a farmer resident at Beaver Mines, Alberta.The attestation form is dated March 1916, and was countersigned at Pincher Creek, Alberta: www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-wo...
The 10th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment) fought as part of 1st Canadian Division from 1915 to 1919; The Division was involved in the capture of Vimy Ridge in April 1917, before moving to the Salient for the final part of the 3rd Battle of Ypres in November 1917.
Cotterell arrived in the UK in November 1916, then served with the 9th Canadian Reserve Battalion at Shorncliffe and Bramshott. He joined the 10th Battalion and moved overseas in March 1917. He spent much of his time overseas in hospital, suffering from mumps (No. 2 General Hospital and No. 4 Convalescent Depot., Le Havre, from 8th March to 10 April).
The medical records in Cotterell's file show that he was admitted to No 32 Stationary Hospital at Wimereux on 29 April 1917, "dangerously ill" with a gunshot wound in the back. On the 3 May, he arrived at Westminster Hospital, Broad Sanctuary, London S.W. A medical summary concluded that Cotterell had been admitted in an "hopeless condition," with a shattered vertebra and complete paralysis in his lower limbs. He died in the Westminster Hospital on the 13 May 1915.
Cotterell's widow (Mrs G. M. Cotterell) lived at Nobleford, Alberta. His mother (Mrs T. S. Cotterell) lived at 2 The Tyning, Widcombe Hill, Bath, which presumably explains why Private Cotterell was buried in the Abbey Cemetery.
Bath: Bath Abbey Cemetery (Somerset)
John St Clair Cotterell
Information from the CWGC database:
COTTERELL, J St. C
Rank: Private
Service No: 898307
Date of Death: 13/05/1917
Regiment/Service: 10th Bn., Canadian Infantry
Cemetery: Bath Abbey Cemetery, Prior Park Road, Bath
Grave Reference: East border. 4. E. 39.
Link: www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/393930/COTTERELL,%20J...
Cotterell's attestation papers, made available by Library and Archives Canada, state that he was born in Bristol, England on 17 September 1891. At the time he joined the CEF, he was a farmer resident at Beaver Mines, Alberta.The attestation form is dated March 1916, and was countersigned at Pincher Creek, Alberta: www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-wo...
The 10th Battalion, Canadian Infantry (Alberta Regiment) fought as part of 1st Canadian Division from 1915 to 1919; The Division was involved in the capture of Vimy Ridge in April 1917, before moving to the Salient for the final part of the 3rd Battle of Ypres in November 1917.
Cotterell arrived in the UK in November 1916, then served with the 9th Canadian Reserve Battalion at Shorncliffe and Bramshott. He joined the 10th Battalion and moved overseas in March 1917. He spent much of his time overseas in hospital, suffering from mumps (No. 2 General Hospital and No. 4 Convalescent Depot., Le Havre, from 8th March to 10 April).
The medical records in Cotterell's file show that he was admitted to No 32 Stationary Hospital at Wimereux on 29 April 1917, "dangerously ill" with a gunshot wound in the back. On the 3 May, he arrived at Westminster Hospital, Broad Sanctuary, London S.W. A medical summary concluded that Cotterell had been admitted in an "hopeless condition," with a shattered vertebra and complete paralysis in his lower limbs. He died in the Westminster Hospital on the 13 May 1915.
Cotterell's widow (Mrs G. M. Cotterell) lived at Nobleford, Alberta. His mother (Mrs T. S. Cotterell) lived at 2 The Tyning, Widcombe Hill, Bath, which presumably explains why Private Cotterell was buried in the Abbey Cemetery.