BORN HULL 1882. SECOND SON OF JOHN COX (1857-1916) AND SARAH ALICE NORTHERN (1858-1935), AT 4, PERCY COTTAGES, NORNABELL STREET, HULL. ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN (FIVE BOYS AND THREE SISTERS). HIS FATHER WAS SHIP BUILDER’S BOILER MAKER AND BORN IN THE ISLE OF DOGS, EAST LONDON. HIS MOTHER WAS BORN IN MALTA.
DAVID NORTHERN COX WAS EMPLOYED AS A BRICKLAYER’S LABOURER.
HE MARRIED AT HULL, IN 1904, AGED 22. HIS WIFE, ANNIE MATILDA COX (BORN 15/11/1884), & SIX CHILDREN, LIVED AT 9, GEORGES TERRACE, ST MARK STREET (1911 CENSUS) AND 1, BRIGHTON TERRACE, BRIGHT STREET, HULL.
HE ENLISTED IN BEVERLEY. SERVED WITH THE 1ST EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 25/09/1914. KILLED IN ACTION, AT YPRES, ON 09/08/1915, AGED 32.
HE IS COMMEMORATED ON THE MENIN GATE MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING, YPRES, BELGIUM.
HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, ANNIE MATILDA. SHE WAS AWARDED A WEEKLY WAR PENSION, OF 26 SHILLINGS AND SIXPENCE, ON 27 MARCH 1916, FOR THEIR CHILDREN, DORIS (BORN 9/11/1904); ANNIE MARIA (BORN 18/09/1906); DAVID NORTHERN (BORN 26/02/1908); GEORGE EDWARD (BORN 10/01/1910); EDNA MAY (BORN 20/3/1912) AND LILIAN COX (BORN5/12/1914).
DAVID NORTHERN COX IS RECORDED AS KILLED ON THE NORNABELL STREET SHRINE. (Published in the Hull Daily Mail, 08 November 1916).
HE WAS BROTHER TO JOHN COX (1881-1942); AMY CHARLOTTE COX (1885- ); WILLIAM COX (1887-1951); BEATRICE COX (1889- ); ELIZABETH ANN MITCHELSON (1892-1949); THOMAS COX (1894-1960); AND FREDERICK COX (1896-1946).
HIS BROTHER, JACK WAS ACCIDENTALLY KILLED IN EARLES SHIPYARD.
HIS SISTER AMY CHARLOTTE, LOST HER HUSBAND IN WW1 – PRIVATE, WALTER COX, IN WW1. HE WAS FORMERLY, 205401, EAST YORKSHIRE REGMENT 7 TRANSFERRED AS PRIVATE, 15226, ROYAL MUNSTER FUSILERS, DIED OF WOUNDS, 24/3/1918, AGED 35. THEY LIVED AT 7, FREDERICK’S TERRACE, NORNABELL STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND NEXT DOOR. AT 2, PERCY COTTAGES, NORNABELL STREET, HULL AND HAD TWO DAUGHTERS, AMY MURIEL AND IRENE (WAR PENSION RECORDS).
