Sergeant Charles Enos Cox

Army Number: 2071

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

Born at Stivington, Bedfordshire and resided at Newark, Nottinghamshire. Son of William Mark and Bertha Adelaide Cox, of Main Street, Lowdham, Nottinghamshire. Husband of Florence Cox, of Swiss Cottage, Bleasby, Nottinghamshire. Was a railway porter for the Midland Railway Company. He enlisted on 7th August 1914 at Newark, Nottinghamshire. Went to France on 25th February 1915 and was promoted Acting-Corporal 26th April 1915. On 31st July 1915, he received wounds to his face and shoulder and was promoted to Sergeant 24th August 1915. He was killed in action whilst in the line at the Hohenzollern Redoubt, France, 14th October 1915, aged 23.

Commemorated: Loos Memorial, France. Panel 87 to 89.

Sergeant Charles Enos Cox is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Newark Cemetery War Memorial, Newark, Nottinghamshire.
St. Mary’s Church Borough of Newark Roll of Honour, Nottinghamshire.
St. Mary’s Church War Memorial, Bleasby, Nottinghamshire.
St. Mary’s Church Parishioners War Memorial, Lowdham, Nottinghamshire.
St. Mary’s Church Methodists Memorial, Lowdham, Nottinghamshire.
Lowdham War Memorial, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.