COTTON, Auguste Harry

Portsmouth Naval Memorial, UKCredit: Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Able Seaman (Gunner)
SS Kayeson - Armed Merchantman
Royal Navy

Auguste was born on the 15th of February 1900 in Shorwell to Harry & Annie (nee WELSTEAD) COTTON. In 1934 at St. John’s Church, Newport, he married Marjorie Alice KELLEWAY & lived at 53 Melbourne Street in Newport.

Auguste briefly served in the Royal Navy in WWI & was recalled to service. The SS Kayeson was a British cargo steamer of 4606 tons built in 1929 & owned by Kaye Son & Co Ltd, The K Steamship Co Ltd. On the 2nd of October 1940, when on route from Liverpool for Montevideo carrying a cargo of 3901 tons’ coal & 2802 tons’ general, she was torpedoed without warning by U-32 & sunk. All 38 crew were lost. Auguste, aged 40, is commemorated by the Commission on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial with nearly 15,000 of his Second World War shipmates.

Auguste is also remembered on the Newport Borough War Memorial.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetery

Sons & Daughters Commemorated Far From Home

Those from the Newport & Carisbrooke area who are buried or commemorated by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission outside of the area, both in the UK and in other countries.

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The image is of the Tyne Cot Military Cemetery & Memorial in Belgium.