COTTINGHAM, Devereaux George
| Service Number: | 1086 |
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| Enlisted: | 23 May 1915, An original of C Company 28th Bn |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Morphett Vale, South Australia, 20 March 1894 |
| Home Town: | Kalgoorlie, Kalgoorlie/Boulder, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Menzies School, Western Australia |
| Occupation: | Miner |
| Died: | Died of wounds, France, 26 March 1917, aged 23 years |
| Cemetery: |
Pozières British Cemetery Plot II, Row E, Grave No. 7. SOUL OF THE JUST SET FREE BLEST BE THY MEMORY & THY BRIGHT EXAMPLE |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Kalgoorlie St John's Anglican Church Honour Roll, Leonora Road Board District Roll of Honor |
World War 1 Service
| 23 May 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1086, 28th Infantry Battalion, An original of C Company 28th Bn | |
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| 29 Jun 1915: | Involvement Private, 1086, 28th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Ascanius embarkation_ship_number: A11 public_note: '' | |
| 29 Jun 1915: | Embarked Private, 1086, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Ascanius, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Son of Edmund Cottingham and Isabell Bell, of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Devereaux was born in Adelaide but his father had passed away in 1902, and somehow his mother had remarried in Kalgoorlie in 1900. He attended school at Menzies, Western Australia, 130 kilometres north of Kalgoorlie. Menzies had a population of 10,000 people in 1900 and at the last census the population was 108.
Devereaux Cottingham served at Gallipoli with the 28th Battalion from early September 1915. He was shot in the knee on the Western Front on 1 June 1916 and spent some time recovering. He transferred to the 7th Machine Gun Company during the Battle of Pozieres.
He was recommended for the Military Medal, ‘for conspicuous gallantry in action near Warlencourt on the night of 1-2 March 1917, when he displayed great judgement and resource in the handling of his machine gun.’ The award was confirmed after his death.
He was mortally wounded on the 25 March 1917, in the throat, and died the next day in the No 3 Casualty Clearing Station.
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