Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Defence of Ladysmith (4331 Pte. W. Cotterell, Glouc: Regt.) initial and majority of surname officially corrected, good very fine £100-140

William Cotterell was born in Bristol in 1875 and attested for the Gloucestershire Regiment on 6 June 1894, having previously served in the Regiment’s 3rd (Militia) Battalion. He served with the 1st Battalion in India from 23 February 1897, before proceeding to South Africa on 24 September 1899, and served there during the Boer War until 23 August 1900, when he proceeded with the Regiment to Ceylon. Returning home on 30 December 1902, he was discharged on 5 June 1910, after 16 years’ service. He died in Bristol in 1940.