COX, Oscar Glenroy
| Service Number: | 3807 |
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| Enlisted: | 12 July 1915, 1 year Senior Cadets, 50th Battalion |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 22nd Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | St Kilda, Victoria, Australia, March 1894 |
| Home Town: | St Kilda, Port Phillip, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Brighton Road State School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Not yet discovered |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 4 October 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Divisional Collecting Post Cemetery and Extension Plot I, Row N, Grave No. 8 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 12 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3807, 22nd Infantry Battalion, 1 year Senior Cadets, 50th Battalion | |
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| 8 Feb 1916: | Involvement Private, 3807, 22nd Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Warilda embarkation_ship_number: A69 public_note: '' | |
| 8 Feb 1916: | Embarked Private, 3807, 22nd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Warilda, Melbourne |
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From How We Served
3807 Private Oscar Glenroy Cox had been a resident of St. Kilda, Victoria, and was employed as an ironmonger at the time of his enlisting for War Service on the 12th of July 1915.
Allocated to reinforcements for the 22nd Battalion, 1st AIF, Oscar embarked from Melbourne bound for Egypt on the 8th of February 1916. Following further training in the desert Oscar then departed Egypt bound for France, where he joined his Battalion in the trenches on the 31st of July 1916.
Within a week of entering the fighting around Pozieres, Oscar was evacuated on the 5th of August 1916, with a shell wound to his face. Hospitalised in France, Oscar rejoined his Unit on the 30th of September 1916 and remained in the trenches, until his Battalion was moved to Belgium and then committed to the Third Battle of Ypres.
On the 4th of October 1917 in the vicinity of Zonnebeke, Private Cox was reported 'Missing in Action' which was later confirmed as 'Killed in Action', but his place of burial was unknown. Oscar was aged 23 at the time of his death.
Following the end of hostilities the Graves Registration Unit was undertaking the exhumation of the war dead from the former battlefields so as they could be moved into the newly created Commonwealth War Cemeteries. It was during this process that Oscar's remains were finally discovered and then identified due to his identity discs being found with him.
Oscar's grieving family were duly informed by Base Records at the start of March 1926, that now located, he was to be officially reinterred within the Divisional Collecting Post Cemetery Extension, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium.
Back home in Australia, Private Oscar Cox's supreme sacrifice made during the 'Great War' was privately memorialised at his family's collective gravesite within St. Kilda General Cemetery, Victoria.
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