🌺 The Sheffield Lad Who Fell in the Spring Battles of 1918 — Corporal George Edwin Cotton 🌺 George Edwin Cotton was born in 1894 in Sheffield, Yorkshire — a city shaped by steel, smoke, and hard labour. He was the son of Samuel and Sarah Ann Cotton, raised in a working-class home where resilience was a way of life. When the Great War came, George answered the call. He enlisted into the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, joining the 6th Battalion — a unit drawn from the towns and streets of Y