Cox MID, George E.

Corporal, George E. Cox, 6th EYR,

BORN WALSALL 09/05/1871. SON OF GEORGE COX AND ELEANOR ALICE GREEN. SON OF A BRUSH MAKER. EDUCATED AT LAMBERT STREET SCHOOL, HULL. HE ENLISTED IN HULL ON 09/08/1893. PROMOTED TO KINGS CORPORAL. SERVED IN THE BOER WAR & MENTIONED IN DISPATCHES (MID) BY LORD KITCHENER. OBTAINED HIS DISCHARGE. SERVED IN THE RESERVES. REPRESENTED THE NATIONAL RESERVES AT GEORGE V’s CORONATION. WAS RECALLED AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR. POSTED WITH THE MEDITERRANEAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. KILLED IN ACTION AT GALLIPOLI, ON 09/08/1915, AGED 45.
HE MARRIED AT ST JUDE’S CHURCH, DUBLIN, ON 13/12/1898. HIS WIFE CHRISTINA WAS DAUGHTER OF A SOLDIER IN THE KING’S ROYAL RIFLE CORPS. HE LIVED WITH HIS WIFE AND SIX CHILDREN, AT 4 QUEENS PLACE, WILLIAM STREET, HULL AND 3 VALLANCE PLACE, BLANKET ROW, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS).
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 11/09/1915, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
HIS NAME WAS RECORDED ON HULL’S  ALDBRO STREET & WILLIAM STREET ROLL’S OF HONOUR. ALSO COMMEMORATED ON THE HELLES MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING AT GALLIPOLI.
HE IS AGAIN LISTED IN THE DE RUVIGNY ROLL OF HONOUR RECORDS.

Gallipoli, Turkey, 1915


First name:
GEORGE E.
Military Number:
3/6811
Rank:
Corporal
Date Died
09/08/1915
Place died:
Helles Memorial, Gallipoli, Turkey
Age:
44
3 VALLANCE PLACE, BLANKET ROW, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK