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Military service
Service number:
45
Age:
37
Rank:
Sapper
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Engineers
Division:
4th Field Coy.
Birth:
May 9, 1880
Death:
November 17, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Husband of Laura E. Cox, of Wafford, Herts.
Digital gallery of Sapper John Herbert Cox
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Inscription
Section of Hollybrook Memorial in Southampton, Hampshire, UK showing the name of John Herbert Cox. Image taken 10 June 2014 -
Cross of Sacrifice
Cross of Sacrifice at Hollybrook Memorial in Southampton, Hampshire, UK. Image taken 10 June 2014 -
Circumstances of death registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CORBI to COZNI. Microform Sequence 23; Volume Number 31829_B016732. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 167. Page 827 of 900. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Daily Colonist of November 23, 1915. Image taken from web address of https://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist57y298uvic#mode/1up -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram April 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 10 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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HOLLYBROOK MEMORIAL Hampshire, United Kingdom
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