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Location
In All Saints' Cemetery, Freshwater, Isle of Wight Description Private headstone. Additional inscription. |
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Headstone
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Inscription
IN LOVING MEMORY OF AMBROSE GREEN WHO FELL ASLEEP JUNE 12 1920 [...] ALSO OF THEIR YOUNGER SON EDWARD GEORGE WHO DIED OF WOUNDS IN FRANCE MAY 2ND 1915 NEVER FORGOTTEN The inscription for his mother, Sarah Green, is obscured Further Information
Edward George Green
Isle of Wight County Press
22 May 1915 FRESHWATER LOCAL MEN KILLED
It is with regret that we have to record the deaths
of two gallant men, both well known at Freshwater, viz.,
2nd-Lieut. George Frederick Cottrell, [1] of the R.G.A., who
was killed at Ypres on May 11th, and Trooper Ernest Green, [2]
of the 6th Dragoon Guards, whose father Mr. A.W. Green,
of Copse-lane, received the sad intelligence that he had been
killed in Flanders on May 2nd. 2nd-Lieut. Cottrell was
stationed at Golden Hill for some time before the war, and
was a most promising and particularly smart young officer.
He gained great popularity amongst the rank and file by
the keen and active interest he took in all sport. He
was the elder son of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Cottrell,
of Allandale, Sandon-road, Edgbaston. He was educated at
Bromsgrove School and King Edward's School, Birmingham,
where he was colour-sergeant in the O.T.C., and was awarded
the Coronation medal. He entered the Royal Military Academy,
Woolwich, in 1912, and there he was senior sergeant, and
won prizes for infantry training and military law. He
played football for the United Services and the Army.
Receiving his commission in July 1913, he was, up to the
outbreak of war, stationed at Golden Hill. In September last
he left for the Front, and was attached to the ammunition
column of the Indian Army, being posted to the 108th Heavy
Battery R.G.A. in January. He was 22 years of age.
[1] Commemorated by a Memorial Window at St Andrew's Church, Norton, Freshwater (now a private house). [2] Actually Edward George Green. |
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