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Personal info

Full name
COTTEN, Joe Allen
Date of birth
13 September 1917
Age
27
Place of birth
Rives, Obion County, Tennessee
Hometown
Due West, Abbeville County, South Carolina

Military service

Service number
O1010848
Rank
First Lieutenant
Function
Platoon Commander
Unit
A Company,
17th Tank Battalion,
7th Armored Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
18 September 1944
Place of death
In the woods, west of Sillegny, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Lorraine
Plot Row Grave
C 18 15

Immediate family

Members
Henry P. Cotten (father)
Beatrice M. (McCaw) Cotten (mother)
Harold M. Cotten (brother)
James M. Cotten (brother)
Mary A. Cotten (sister)
Eudora Cotten (sister)
Henry P. Cotten (brother)
Clarence C. Cotten (brother)
Willie C. Cotten (sister)
Barbara M. (Grier) Cotten (wife)

More information

1st Lt Joe A. Cotten graduated from Erskine College and was the athletic coach and biology teacher at a school in Fairfax, South Carolina.

He enlisted at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, on 24 June 1941 and was sent overseas in April 1944.

He was married to Barbara Moffat Grier on 19 December 1942.

He was initially buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Limey, France.

Source of information: André Koch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov – WWII Enlistment Record, www.ancestry.com - 1920/1930/1940 Census / Headstone and Interment Records / U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947, https://www.7tharmddiv.org

Photo source: www.findagrave.com - Marshall and Mary McIntyre, Joseph Harris, Richard Cotten