Source: Per post of medals for sale by Quentin de Givenchy at the 18th Battalion Facebook Page.
Family Search: Malcolm Leonard Cotton was born on 11 August 1880, in Dublin, Ireland as the son of Daniel Cotton and Winnifred Earl. He married Ann Elizabeth Lucy on 27 April 1904, in Gananoque, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He immigrated to Canada in 1895 and lived in Gananoque, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada for about 7 years. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 35, his occupation is listed as metal polisher in Gananoque, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada. He died on 5 January 1935, in Kingston Township, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 54, and was buried in Gananoque Cemetery, Gananoque, Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 