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| Name: | Jack Cottle | Country: | England | Rank: | Captain | Service: | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force | Squadrons: | 45 | Victories: | 14 | Born: | 19 June 1893 | Place of Birth: | Plymouth, Devon | Died: | 15 August 1967 | | Place of Death: | India |
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| | Cottle grew up in Zululand, joining the South African Mounted Rifles in 1914. In 1917, he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps and was posted to 45 Squadron in Italy. Flying the Sopwith Camel, he scored 13 victories before his squadron returned to France for the final months of the war. On the morning of 31 August 1918, Cottle shot down three Albatros D.III's, killing Austro-Hungarian ace Josef Pürer and capturing Otto Forster of Flik 3J. Cottle remained in the RAF at the end of the war, later serving in India and Iraq. He received an MBE before his retirement in 1942 and a few years later, he and his wife moved to India. |
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