Wilfred Samuel Cote was born on July 30, 1912 in Nashua, New Hampshire. He was the son of Wilfred Augustine Cote and Josephine Dora Starrett Cote. He was married to Gertrude I. Cote who resided in Revere, Massachusetts. Wilfred resided in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire prior to the war. He enlisted in the Army on April 16, 1942 in Manchester, New Hampshire. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being employed as a meatcutter and also as Single, without dependents. He served as a Technical Sergeant, 505th Military Police Battalion, U.S. Army during World War II.

On May 23, 1945, he was a passenger on Flight C-46D (4-77507) which was taking 41 American soldiers that were ill, injured, or repatriated prisoners of war to hospitals in the Paris, France area and was then eventually going to take them all back to the United States. This flight occurred after Germany's surrender on May 7, 1945. However this C-46, for unknown reasons, developed a fire in one of it's two engines and crashed near the village of Taillefontaine, near Paris. All men aboard were killed in the crash. Technical Sergeant Cote died at the age of 32 and is now buried in the Epinal American Cemetery, Dinozé, France.

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