Private Arthur Cokayne

Army Number: 10402

Battalion: 2nd Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 1914 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born and lived at Derby. Son of Arthur Henry Cokayne and Mary Ann Simpson (formerly Cokayne), of 22, Bradshaw Street, Derby. He enlisted at Derby and went to France on 8th September 1914 and was killed in action on 20th October 1914, when the battalion held position south-east of Bois Grenier, Ennetieres/Escobecques, France against a German attack.

Commemorated : Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium. Panel 7.

Ploegsteert Memorial, Belgium.