Private Harold Cocking

Army Number : 31307

Battalion : 1st Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Nottingham. Son of Albert and Emma Cocking, of 20, Hedderley Street, Union Road, Nottingham. He enlisted at Nottingham and was killed in action, 27th May 1918, aged 21, whilst the battalion was in a retiring fight from Montagne de Guyancourt, France.

Commemorated : Soissons Memorial, France.

Private Harold Cocking is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Andrews; Church War Memorial, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.