COX Cecil Herbert

  • First Name(s):
    Cecil 
    Herbert 
  • Surname:
    COX
  • Service Number:
    370
  • Rank:

    Private

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Royal Warwickshire Regiment
  • Battalion:
    15th Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    27th October 1917
  • Age At Death:
    22
  • Cause of Death:
    Died of wounds
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Belgium, Grave XXII. C. 20A.
  • Place of Birth:
    Born and resident Salisbury, Wiltshire, enlisted Birmingham
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of H.P. and E. Cox, of “Nortonbury,” Easemore Rd., Redditch, Worcestershire

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COX Cecil Herbert Is Named On These Memorials

Redditch Bates Hill Methodist Church now in Redditch Emmanuel Church
Redditch Secondary School now Trinity High School WW1 Memorial

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Redditch Bates Hill Methodist Church now in Redditch Emmanuel Church as Herbert Cecil Cox with the information: Signaller

Further Information About COX Cecil Herbert

Recorded as Cecil Herbert Cox on Commonwealth War Graves Commission and Soldiers Died in the Great War.

1911 Census
17 Archer Road, Redditch
Herbert Porch Cox, head, age 42, Boot maker, born Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
Kate Cox, wife, age 30, married 2 years, 2 children, both still living
Cecil Cox, son, age 16, Leather warehouse, born Salisbury, Wiltshire
Reggie Cox, son, age 13, School, born Bromsgrove, Worcestershire
Clifton Cox, son, age 2, born Redditch, Worcestershire
Stanley Cox, son, age under 2 months, born Redditch, Worcestershire

The following information has been researched by Jillian Coombes:
Registered at birth as Herbert Cecil Cox in 1895 in Salisbury, Wiltshire. On the 1901 census he was called Herbert, aged 6, lived with his parents Herbert P. Cox aged 33, Shoe and Boot Maker, and Emily aged 34, plus his brother Reginald aged 2 at 8 Essex Street, Kingsthorpe, Northampton. On the 1911 census he was called Cecil, aged 16, his employment was classed as Leather Warehouse, lived with his father Herbert Porch Cox, aged 42, Bootmaker and step-mother Kate and siblings at 17 Archer Road, Redditch. Herbert and Kate had been married 2 years.

On the Ancestry website Probate records, Herbert Cecil Cox of Easemore Road, Redditch, was a Private in the 15th Royal Warwickshire Regiment, died 27th October 1917 in France.

Herbert was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.

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