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COTTERELL, Joseph Richard
(Service number 7/1604)

Joseph Richard Cotterell — (Courtesy of P Cotterell )

Recruits at the Timaru Drill Hall on High Street, 1915 — Includes, in middle row, Joseph Richard Cotterell (fifth from left) and Ambrose Martin Cotterell (tenth from left). Both are wearing uniform as they were already serving in the Territorial Army. (Courtesy of P Cotterell )

Aliases
First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank	Lance Corporal

Birth

Date	16 August 1894	Place of Birth	Fairlie

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Box 156, Fairlie, New Zealand
Occupation	Shepherd for S Dale, Fairlie
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	William M. Cotterell (brother), Box 37, Fairlie, New Zealand
Religion	Roman Catholic
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	7th Reinforcements, Canterbury Mounted Rifles
Date	9 October 1915
Transport	Aparima or Navua or Warrimoo
Embarked From		Destination

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Mounted Rifles

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egyptian 1915-16, Egyptian Expeditionary Force 1916-1918, Balkan 1918
Service Medals	1914-1915 Star; British War Medal; Victory Medal
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date	21 October 1919	Reason	Discharged on the termination of his period of engagement.

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	26 February 1952	Age
Place of Death	Timaru
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Joseph's brother Ambrose Martin Cotterell also served during World War One.

Sources

SCRoll submission from P Cotterell, 16 December 2014; Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database (19 June 2015)

External Links

Researched and Written by

Tony Rippin (South Canterbury Museum)

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