Cottingham, Edmund
photo from Jack Middleton, taken around 1918
E. COTTINGHAM
Edmund Cottingham
4617 Private, West Yorkshire Regiment
202156 Private, 5th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment
Born in Scotter
Son of William Fisher (a miller from Faldingworth near Market Rasen) and Mary (nee Parks of Lumley, Nottinghamshire)
Baptised 14th November 1886 at St. Peter's Church
Family lived on South Street
Enlisted 30th March 1916
His ‘dog tag’ shows his religion as Church of England
In 1916 hospitalised in Ipswich as 'wounded in both hands'
Discharged as a result of wounds on 18th April 1917 and received Silver War Badge B10662
(in the picture above he is wearing it)
Died in 1927 aged 39 'from injuries sustained in the Great War'
Mother buried in the churchyard, father in the cemetery
Brother of Herbert