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Herbert Cecil Cox

Forces War Records
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Private Cecil Herbert Cox, born and resided in Salisbury, Wiltshire, Service no 370, 15
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Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, died of wounds 27 October 1917, France and
Flanders. Aged 22. He was the son of H. P. and E. Cox of “Nortonbury,” Easemore Road,
Redditch.
Ancestry site Military records
Private Cecil Herbert Cox was awarded the British War Medal and Victory Medal.
Buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cememtery, Belgium.

Private Cecil Herbert Cox – source: - http://www.lijssenthoek.be/en/adresse/7441/-cecil-herbert-cox.html

Remembered on County High School war memorial, Redditch. (now Trinity High School)

(He was registered at birth as Herbert Cecil Cox in 1895 in Salisbury, Wiltshire. On the 1901 census he was
called Herbert, aged 6, lived with his parents Herbert P. Cox aged 33, Shoe and Boot Maker, and Emily aged 34,
plus his brother Reginald aged 2. They lived at 8 Essex Street, Kingsthorpe, Northampton. On the 1911 census
he was called Cecil, aged 16, born in Salisbury, his employment was classed as Leather Warehouse, lived with
his father Herbert Porch Cox . aged 42, Bootmaker and step-mother Kate and siblings at 17 Archer Road,
Redditch. Herbert and Kate had been married 2 years. . On Ancestry site Probate records, Herbert Cecil Cox of
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Easemore Road, Redditch, was a Private in the 15 Royal Warwickshire Regiment, who died 27 October 1917
in France.)

He was possibly in the Battle of Passchendaele.

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