Company Sergeant Major William Herbert Cocking

Army Number : 265033 (formerly 898)

Battalion : 2/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Nottingham. Son of Elwyn James and Mary Hannah Cocking, of 190, Blackstone Street, The Meadows, Nottingham. He was a joiner and undertaker prior to enlisting at Nottingham. He went to France 25th February 1915 and was killed in action, 26th September 1917, in the attack near Vlamertinghe, near Ypres, Belgium.

Commemorated : Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium. Panel 99 to 102 and 162 to 162A.

Herbert Cocking is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Nicolas’s Church War Memorial, Nottingham.
St. Saviours Church War Memorial, Meadows, Nottingham.
Mundella School War Memorial, St. Mary’s Church, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.