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Military service
Service number:
CDN/204
Age:
25
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Devonshire Regiment
Division:
12th
Death:
March 24, 1945
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
IV. H. 1.
Additional information
Hubert Cox was a member of the Royal Canadian Infantry Corps, died while serving with the Devonshire Regiment as a CANLOAN Officer.
Husband of Gladys Cox, of Stratford, Ontario.
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Charles Cox was born on September 15, 1919, son of Mr. And Mrs Harold C. Cox of 1291 York Street, and husband of Gladys Cox, Stratford. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Infantry Corps in London on September 9, 1939 and trained as a paratroop officer. In the United Kingdom, he was loaned to the Britsh Army and was attached to the Devonshire Regiment, which formed part of the 6th British Airborne Regiment. In the early hours of March 24, 1945, he was wounded while a passenger in a an ssault glider and was crushed in glider crash. -
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Holten Canadian War Cemetery (1)
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Holten Canadian War Cemetery (2)
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Holten Canadian War Cemetery (3)
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Lieutenant Hubert Charles Cox
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Lieutenant Hubert Charles Cox
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Hubert Charles Cox
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Hubert Charles Cox
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Hubert Charles Cox
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Hubert Charles Cox
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 506 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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