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2nd Lt. Eric Roland Cotterill
Australian Imperial Force 13th Infantry Batn.
from:Australia
(d.9th May 1915)
Eric Roland Cotterill was born at Paddington, New South Wales on 22nd January 1892 to parents George and Dorothea Cotterill. Prior to the First World War, he spent three years as a naval cadet and a further two years in the Naval Reserve. A warehouseman by trade, he enlisted at Rosehill on 21st September 1914 at the age of 22.
Cotterill departed Melbourne with the 13th Infantry Battalion aboard HMAT Ulysses on 22nd December 1914. By this time, he had already been promoted to sergeant. He served with 13th Infantry Battalion at Gallipoli and was promoted to the rank of second lieutenant on 8th May 1915. The following day, Eric Cotterill was killed in action and is buried at Quinn's Post Cemetery, Turkey