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Military service
Service number:
545
Age:
31
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Dragoons (1st Armoured Regiment)
Birth:
November 16, 1884
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
February 20, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. C. 158.
Additional information
Son of James Walter and Jane Elizabeth Cockerill, of Kettlewell Vicarage, Skipton, Yorks.
Digital gallery of Sergeant John Cockerill
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Coupure de presse
Newspaper clipping from Daily Telegraph of March 1, 1916. Image taken from web address of http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12175172/Daily-Telegraph-March-1-1916.html -
Registres de circonstances du décès
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CLEAL TO CONNOLLY. Microform Sequence 21; Volume Number 31829_B016730. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 165. Page 485 of 1384.
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Cockerill
Digital gallery of
Sergeant John Cockerill
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 68 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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