Private Richard Mark Cocup

Army Number : 260020 (formerly 260123 Bedfordshire Regiment)

Battalion : 2/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Dartford, kent. Son of Henry George and Kate Jane Cocup, of 1 Cherry Tree Cottages South Street, Dartford. He enlisted at Dartford and was later transferred to the 2/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment. He was killed in action, 18th April 1918, in the attack near Kemmel, Belgium.

Commemorated : Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium. Panel 7.

Private Richard Mark Cocup is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Central Park War Memorial, Dartford, Kent.

His brother Private William Thomas Cocup, 1st Battalion Queens (Royal West Surrey Regiment) also fell in the Great War.