Lance Corporal Percy Stewart Cox

Army Number: 200472 formerly 2347

Battalion: 1/5th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

He enlisted at Derby and went to France on 1st March 1915 and was killed in action on 1st July 1916 in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt on the 1st Day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.