John Hubbard Cotterell

Lieutenant John Cotterell and his older brother George, were regulars for Claremont teams in the years leading up to the war. The both enlisted and received commissions as officers. John married Daphne Murray on 15 May 1917 and left for the front five months later. On his first wedding anniversary he was diagnosed with permanent nerve deafness caused by shell burst in trenches at Villers-Bretonneux. He was invalided and and few months later boarded the HT Medic in England for his return home. John Cotterell passed away in Sydney in 1953 at the age of 61. His brother George was killed in action in France on 3 October 1918.