Military Service-
Service Number: 75
Force: Army
Unit: Canadian Engineers
Division: 2nd Divisional Signals Company
A decorator by trade, he enlisted in the CEF on 21 Jan 1915 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Husband of Lillian (Weller) Cocks of Gloucester Street, Ottawa.
Private Albert Cocks is commemorated on Page 9 of Canada's First World War Book of Remembrance.
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Inscription:
75 Private A. Cocks Canadian Engineers 21st September 1915.
[Note: The format of surrounding graves suggests that his Army Number was 75]
Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
COCKS, ALBERT, Sapper, No. 75, 2nd Signal Company (Headquarters Section), Royal Canadian Engineers, 4th son of James Cocks, of Bexley Heath, Kent, formerly of Chenies, Builder (who was seven years with the 36th (now 18th) Middlesex Regiment); b. Putney, co. Surrey, 12 Dec. 1876; educated Chenies, Rickmansworth, Herts, and was a Decorator. He joined the R.E. in 1900, and was attached to the 57th Field Company at Chatham, and won the Education (2nd class) Certificate, but after serving three years retired through ill-health. In 1910 went to Ottawa, Canada. There he joined the Governor-General's Foot Guards, but afterwards transferred to the Canadian Engineers, and was attached to the 3rd Field Company When the European War broke out in Aug. 1914, he immediately volunteered for service overseas and joined the 2nd Divisional Signal Royal Canadian Engineers, and obtained the Army Signalling Certificate. He left for England with the second contingent in May, 1915, and was stationed at Shorncliffe till Sept. They were ordered to proceed to France on 8 Sept., and on the 4th of the month he was given leave to wish his relatives in London good-bye. At 8.30 p.m. the same day he was knocked down by a motor car at the corner of Parliament Street, Westminster, receiving a fractured skull and internal injuries. He was taken to Westminster Hospital, where he died after three operations, 21 Sept. 1915. He was buried at Kensal Green in the Canadian Government part. His commanding officer wrote: "His work with me was of the very best. He had proved a very valuable man, the like of whom our Empire could not afford to lose." He married at Christ Church, Ottawa, 3 June, 1914, Lillian, formerly of Toronto, daughter of the late Henry Hodges Weller; s.p
Service Number: 75
Force: Army
Unit: Canadian Engineers
Division: 2nd Divisional Signals Company
A decorator by trade, he enlisted in the CEF on 21 Jan 1915 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Husband of Lillian (Weller) Cocks of Gloucester Street, Ottawa.
Private Albert Cocks is commemorated on Page 9 of Canada's First World War Book of Remembrance.
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Inscription:
75 Private A. Cocks Canadian Engineers 21st September 1915.
[Note: The format of surrounding graves suggests that his Army Number was 75]
Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
COCKS, ALBERT, Sapper, No. 75, 2nd Signal Company (Headquarters Section), Royal Canadian Engineers, 4th son of James Cocks, of Bexley Heath, Kent, formerly of Chenies, Builder (who was seven years with the 36th (now 18th) Middlesex Regiment); b. Putney, co. Surrey, 12 Dec. 1876; educated Chenies, Rickmansworth, Herts, and was a Decorator. He joined the R.E. in 1900, and was attached to the 57th Field Company at Chatham, and won the Education (2nd class) Certificate, but after serving three years retired through ill-health. In 1910 went to Ottawa, Canada. There he joined the Governor-General's Foot Guards, but afterwards transferred to the Canadian Engineers, and was attached to the 3rd Field Company When the European War broke out in Aug. 1914, he immediately volunteered for service overseas and joined the 2nd Divisional Signal Royal Canadian Engineers, and obtained the Army Signalling Certificate. He left for England with the second contingent in May, 1915, and was stationed at Shorncliffe till Sept. They were ordered to proceed to France on 8 Sept., and on the 4th of the month he was given leave to wish his relatives in London good-bye. At 8.30 p.m. the same day he was knocked down by a motor car at the corner of Parliament Street, Westminster, receiving a fractured skull and internal injuries. He was taken to Westminster Hospital, where he died after three operations, 21 Sept. 1915. He was buried at Kensal Green in the Canadian Government part. His commanding officer wrote: "His work with me was of the very best. He had proved a very valuable man, the like of whom our Empire could not afford to lose." He married at Christ Church, Ottawa, 3 June, 1914, Lillian, formerly of Toronto, daughter of the late Henry Hodges Weller; s.p
Military Service-
Service Number: 75
Force: Army
Unit: Canadian Engineers
Division: 2nd Divisional Signals Company
A decorator by trade, he enlisted in the CEF on 21 Jan 1915 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Husband of Lillian (Weller) Cocks of Gloucester Street, Ottawa.
Private Albert Cocks is commemorated on Page 9 of Canada's First World War Book of Remembrance.
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Inscription:
75 Private A. Cocks Canadian Engineers 21st September 1915.
[Note: The format of surrounding graves suggests that his Army Number was 75]
Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
COCKS, ALBERT, Sapper, No. 75, 2nd Signal Company (Headquarters Section), Royal Canadian Engineers, 4th son of James Cocks, of Bexley Heath, Kent, formerly of Chenies, Builder (who was seven years with the 36th (now 18th) Middlesex Regiment); b. Putney, co. Surrey, 12 Dec. 1876; educated Chenies, Rickmansworth, Herts, and was a Decorator. He joined the R.E. in 1900, and was attached to the 57th Field Company at Chatham, and won the Education (2nd class) Certificate, but after serving three years retired through ill-health. In 1910 went to Ottawa, Canada. There he joined the Governor-General's Foot Guards, but afterwards transferred to the Canadian Engineers, and was attached to the 3rd Field Company When the European War broke out in Aug. 1914, he immediately volunteered for service overseas and joined the 2nd Divisional Signal Royal Canadian Engineers, and obtained the Army Signalling Certificate. He left for England with the second contingent in May, 1915, and was stationed at Shorncliffe till Sept. They were ordered to proceed to France on 8 Sept., and on the 4th of the month he was given leave to wish his relatives in London good-bye. At 8.30 p.m. the same day he was knocked down by a motor car at the corner of Parliament Street, Westminster, receiving a fractured skull and internal injuries. He was taken to Westminster Hospital, where he died after three operations, 21 Sept. 1915. He was buried at Kensal Green in the Canadian Government part. His commanding officer wrote: "His work with me was of the very best. He had proved a very valuable man, the like of whom our Empire could not afford to lose." He married at Christ Church, Ottawa, 3 June, 1914, Lillian, formerly of Toronto, daughter of the late Henry Hodges Weller; s.p
Service Number: 75
Force: Army
Unit: Canadian Engineers
Division: 2nd Divisional Signals Company
A decorator by trade, he enlisted in the CEF on 21 Jan 1915 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Husband of Lillian (Weller) Cocks of Gloucester Street, Ottawa.
Private Albert Cocks is commemorated on Page 9 of Canada's First World War Book of Remembrance.
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Inscription:
75 Private A. Cocks Canadian Engineers 21st September 1915.
[Note: The format of surrounding graves suggests that his Army Number was 75]
Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:
COCKS, ALBERT, Sapper, No. 75, 2nd Signal Company (Headquarters Section), Royal Canadian Engineers, 4th son of James Cocks, of Bexley Heath, Kent, formerly of Chenies, Builder (who was seven years with the 36th (now 18th) Middlesex Regiment); b. Putney, co. Surrey, 12 Dec. 1876; educated Chenies, Rickmansworth, Herts, and was a Decorator. He joined the R.E. in 1900, and was attached to the 57th Field Company at Chatham, and won the Education (2nd class) Certificate, but after serving three years retired through ill-health. In 1910 went to Ottawa, Canada. There he joined the Governor-General's Foot Guards, but afterwards transferred to the Canadian Engineers, and was attached to the 3rd Field Company When the European War broke out in Aug. 1914, he immediately volunteered for service overseas and joined the 2nd Divisional Signal Royal Canadian Engineers, and obtained the Army Signalling Certificate. He left for England with the second contingent in May, 1915, and was stationed at Shorncliffe till Sept. They were ordered to proceed to France on 8 Sept., and on the 4th of the month he was given leave to wish his relatives in London good-bye. At 8.30 p.m. the same day he was knocked down by a motor car at the corner of Parliament Street, Westminster, receiving a fractured skull and internal injuries. He was taken to Westminster Hospital, where he died after three operations, 21 Sept. 1915. He was buried at Kensal Green in the Canadian Government part. His commanding officer wrote: "His work with me was of the very best. He had proved a very valuable man, the like of whom our Empire could not afford to lose." He married at Christ Church, Ottawa, 3 June, 1914, Lillian, formerly of Toronto, daughter of the late Henry Hodges Weller; s.p
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