Lance Corporal Harry Cocker

Army Number : 202101

Battalion : 2/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Derby. Son of Joseph and Elizabeth Cocker, of 44, Erasmus Street, Derby. He was a tinsmith’s assistant in the Way and Works Department of Midland Railway at Derby. He enlisted at Derby and served in Dublin during the Irish Rebellion of 1916. He went to France and was killed in action, 4th April, during an attack at Le Verguier, France.

Buried : Vadencourt British Cemetery, Maissemy, France. Plot 4. Row A. Grave 7.

Lance Corporal Harry Cocker is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Paul’s Church War Memorial, Derby.
Midland Railway War Memorial, Derby.