Private Bertie Cox

Private Bertie Cox

Army Number: 2421

Battalion : 1/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born at West Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, and lived at 98, Broomhill Road, Bulwell, Nottingham. Son of William and Fanny Cox, of Small Drove Lane, West Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire. He was a baker prior to enlisting 11th September 1914 at Retford. He went to France 2nd March 1915 and was killed in action, 15th June 1915, aged 22, during a German raid on the trenches at Kemmel, Belgium.

Buried : Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery, Belgium. Row D. Grave 67.

Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery, Belgium.
Private Bertie Cox grave

Private Bertie Cox is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Bartholomew’s Church War Memorial, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire.
Pinchbeck War Memorial, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Private Ernest Cox, 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.