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• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Dewsbury
• Land Yorkshire
• Last residence St.John the Baptist Street, Dewsbury
• Family Son of Michael Cox and Mary Durkin.
  Four brothers: Michael (killed 24 August 1918; born 1899), Francis (1891), James (1893) and Joseph (1896); one sister, Maria Helena (1888).
• Profession Coal miner
• Extra info Married to Annie Elizabeth Shannon (1906)

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 20 August 1914
• Service number 12122
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 6th Bn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
• Other data related to military career To France 21 May 1915

Death

• Type of wounds Head wound, caused by shell burst; died in n°10 CCS
• Died at the age of 29
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery III - A - 3

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