COX, George Henry
| Service Number: | 2056 |
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| Enlisted: | 14 August 1915, Keswick, South Australia |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 39th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Darenth, England, November 1888 |
| Home Town: | Norwood (SA), South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Grocer's assistant |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Belgium, 8 June 1917 |
| Cemetery: |
Strand Military Cemetery, Ploegsteert, Wallonie, Belgium Grave IV. B. 11. INSCRIPTION - THY WILL BE DONE |
| Memorials: | Adelaide National War Memorial, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Norwood War Memorial, Norwood War Memorial |
World War 1 Service
| 14 Aug 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2056, Keswick, South Australia | |
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| 14 Aug 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 2056, 43rd Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, A fortnight between enlistment and Embarkation -something of a record. | |
| 28 Aug 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 2056, 43rd Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Anchises embarkation_ship_number: A68 public_note: '' | |
| 7 Jun 1917: |
Involvement
AIF WW1, Corporal, 2056, 39th Infantry Battalion, Battle of Messines, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2056 awm_unit: 39th Australian Infantry Battalion awm_rank: Corporal awm_died_date: 1917-06-08 |
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"...2056 Corporal (Cpl) George Henry Cox, 39th Infantry Battalion, originally from Darneth England. A grocer's assistant prior to enlistment in South Australia, Cpl Cox embarked with the 3rd Rienfrocements 43rd Infantry Battalion, from Adelaide on HMAT Anchises (A68) on 28 August 1916. He was killed in action on 8 June 1917 in Belgium, aged 27." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)
Biography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
He was 28 And the son of George Raymond and Alice Cox; husband of Clara G. Cox, of Annesley Avenue, North Norwood, South Australia.
He is remembered on the Rolvenden War Memorial; Rolvenden is a village and civil parish in the Ashford District of Kent, England.
Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, the memorial was unveiled in 1922 and is today a grade II listed building.The completed memorial was unveiled by Randall Davidson, the Archbishop of Canterbury, on 8 November 1922. The final cost was £255, plus Lutyens' 10 per cent fee and £6 expenses.
The memorial consists of a single tall cross in Clipsham stone, significantly more slender than most of Lutyens' other war memorials and a significant departure from his War Cross design used for village war memorials elsewhere. The cross sits on an octagonal plinth, which itself is set on a base of three stone steps—circular, unlike the square steps commonly seen on other Lutyens’ works. Metal plaques affixed to the plinth contain the names of the dead and the inscription, from the Ode of Remembrance,
"AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM".
He is also honoured on the war memorial in the church.
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