Participant Info

Given Name

William Napoleon

Family Name

Cottrell

Service Number

248

Place of Birth

Glenroy NSW

Occupation

Labourer

Place of Enlistment

Melbourne VIC

Next of Kin

Father, F.J. Roder, Day St Bairnsdale.

Address on Enlistment

Francis Street, Bairnsdale, Victoria

Unit on Embarkation

37th Battalion, A Company

Age at Embarkation

27

Embarkation Vessel

HMAT A34 Persic, Melbourne VIC on 3 June 1916

Rank on Enlistment

Private

Unit at Discharge

Rank at Death/Discharge

Private

Date of Return

Place of death or wounding

Messines, Belgium

Date of Death

8/06/1917

Fate

KIA

Place of burial/memorial

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Link to record

recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=3429312