Memorials & Monuments
on the Isle of Wight
- Biography -
- Auguste Harry Cotton -

Name

Auguste (Gus) Harry Cotton, son of Harry and Annie Cotton; husband of Marjory Alice Cotton, of Newport, Isle of Wight.
 
Service details

Able Seaman P/SS 8278 Auguste Harry Cotton, HMS President III, Royal Navy

CWGC record ...

Further information

Auguste Harry Cotton was born in 1900 to Harry Cotton and Annie Cotton (nee Welstead), of Lock's Green, Calbourne. Known as Gus, he married, firstly, Daisy Nina Barrett in 1925. Daisy died in 1929 aged 36. In the 1933 Electoral Roll Gus is shown with his parents at 1 Point Cottages, Whippingham. Gus married, secondly, Marjory Alice Kelleway in 1934. Serving in the Royal Naval Reserve, he was called up for service in World War II, and, acting as a gunner on an armed merchant ship, SS Kayeson, was lost on 2 October 1940.

His name is commemorated at the Newport Borough War Memorial, and on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.

Gus Cotton	IW County Press 14 Dec 1940	Portsmouth Naval Memorial

Information and photographs provided by : Ann Barrett. Gus Cotton and Daisy Cotton (nee Barrett) were the adoptive parents of the late Les Barrett, Ann's husband.