COTTLE, James Edward
| Service Number: | 1727 |
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| Enlisted: | 8 January 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 13th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Tocumwal, New South Wales, Australia, 1894 |
| Home Town: | Tocumwal, Berrigan, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Killed in Action, France, 30 August 1916 |
| Cemetery: |
Serre Road Cemetery No.2 Beaumont Hamel, France Serre Road Cemetery No 2, Beaumont Hamel, Picardie, France |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Tocumwal Gunners Memorial, Tocumwal Memorial Hall Honour Rolls, Tocumwal War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 8 Jan 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1727, 13th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 17 Mar 1915: | Involvement Private, 1727, 13th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '11' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Shropshire embarkation_ship_number: A9 public_note: '' | |
| 17 Mar 1915: | Embarked Private, 1727, 13th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Shropshire, Sydney | |
| 30 Aug 1916: | Involvement Lance Corporal, 1727, 13th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 1727 awm_unit: 13 Battalion awm_rank: Lance Corporal awm_died_date: 1916-08-30 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Cottle served at Gallipoli from late May 1915, until evacuated with jaundice in late November. He was promoted to Lance Corporal at Pozieres only a few days before he went missing. From his Red Cross File, on 30 August 1916 he went out with another man, at 3am in the morning to search for wounded. Neither man was seen again. Cottle was listed as missing and determined by a court of enquiry held 6 months later, to be killed in action. In 1931 during the course of exhumation work, near Mouquet Farm, his remains were found and identified by his disc. The identity disc was returned to his father in Narrandera and James Cottle’s remains were buried in the Serre Road No.2 Cemetery, France.