Cotton | F | | | 2nd Battalion
Source: Medal rolls | Cheshire Regiment |
Cotton | F | | | 2nd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | East Surrey Regiment |
Cotton | F | 4165 | Trumpeter | QSA (4).
Source: QSA medal rolls | 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards |
Cotton | F | 4165 | Trumpeter | QSA (4) Eland DoL OFS Tr
Provisional list of recipients
Source: Ladysmith Siege Account and Medal Roll | 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards |
Cotton | F | 4165 | Trooper | QSA (4) Eland DoL OFS Tr
Provisional list of recipients
Source: Ladysmith Siege Account and Medal Roll | 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards |
Cotton | F G S | | Lieutenant | Demise: Killed accidentally explosion 06 Oct 1900
Place: Pienaars River
Source: In Memoriam by S Watt | Royal Engineers, Field Company, 11th |
Cotton | F R | | | Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | New Zealand, 6th Contingent |
Cotton | Francis Gerald Stapleton | | Lieutenant | Accidentally killed 6 Oct 1900 at Pienaar's Drift by an explosion. QSA (3) sent to father 29 Apr 1903.
QSA (3) CC Tr Witt
TNA ref 156/55
Medals extant | Royal Engineers, Field Company, 11th |
Cotton | Francis Gerald Stapleton | | Lieutenant | He was killed by an explosion at Pienaars River Camp October 6th, 1900. He was the only son of F M Cotton of Holyhead, North Wales, was born May 16th, 1878, and educated at Repton, whence he passed into the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, second on the list. Lieutenant Cotton entered the Royal Engineers September 1897, and after serving at Chatham and Gosport, embarked for South Africa in February 1900. He was promoted Lieutenant a few days before being killed. He served in the Harrismith and Bethlehem districts, and was awarded the medal with three clasps.
Source: Donner | Royal Engineers |
Cotton | Frederick Charles | 3863 | Private | BSACM Rhodesia 1896 (0).
Source: BSACM rolls | York and Lancaster Regiment |
Cotton | G | 1715 | Private | Prisoner. Helvetia, 29 December 1900
1st Battalion. Released
Source: South African Field Force Casualty Roll | (King's) Liverpool Regiment |
Cotton | G | 4230 | Private | Wounded. Near Colesberg, 20 January 1900
2nd Battalion.
Source: South African Field Force Casualty Roll | (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Royal Berkshire Re |
Cotton | G | | | 2nd Battalion, attached 4th Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Bedfordshire Regiment |
Cotton | G | | | 2nd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Bedfordshire Regiment |
Cotton | G | | | 2nd Battalion
Source: QSA and KSA medal rolls | Northamptonshire Regiment |
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