Cotton,+L

COTTON, Leslie Corporal, 4612306, The Duke of Wellingtons, D.E.M.S. personnel. Died 19th Feb 1941, age 26. Son of Sam Heywood and Agnes Cotton of Redcliffe Ave, Keighley. He joined the Territorials when he was 17 years old and worked as a warehouse man at Scott Woodhead, Dalton Mills, Keighley. He was a coastal anti - aircraft gunner, and his ship was sunk by enemy action ( details of ship and action not unearthed.) See Keighley News, 15th March 1941 (No photo) and 27th Feb 1941 (presumed Killed in action)

Plymouth Memorial, Panel 62, Col 2.