COTTAM, Walter William
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Rank:
Private
Unit / Base:
7 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Liverpool Scottish Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
Service:
Army
Service Number:
3769228
Born:
Wednesday, November 3, 1915
Birthplace:
Birkenhead, Cheshire
Died :
Monday, January 30, 1989
Place died:
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Private Walter Cottam, 1st Bn., Liverpool Scottish, volunteered for the Commandos and was attached to No.7 Commando on 10 October 1940 [1][2].
31 January 1941 departed for the Middle East as 'A' Battalion of Layforce [2].
28 May 1941 wounded during operations on Crete but managed to escape off the island before being hospitalised ending up in Durban South Africa [1][3].
Post war emigrated to Canada [3].
Sources
[1] Casualty Lists / National Archives files WO417/28.
[2] The book Special Service of a Hazardous Nature compiled by Dennis Reeves, curator of the Liverpool Scottish Museum Archive.
[Image] [3] Jeff Cottam (son).
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