Cemetery: Etaples Military Cemetery
Country: France
Area: Pas De Calais
Rank: Brigadier General
Force: Army
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Unit: General Staff formerly Royal Engineers.
Country of Service: British
Details: D S O Mentioned in Despatches. Drowned whilst swimming off Berck Plage 26th August 1918. Age 36. Officer of the Order of the Crown (Belgium) Officer of the Order of Saint Maurice and Saint Lazarus (Italy). Son of George William and Louisa Hannah Cox; husband of Nora I. Cox of Morningside Pietermaritzburg Natal S. Africa. XXVIII. O. 4.
Photograph by David Milborrow / Chris Cosgrove