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Military service
Service number:
419089
Age:
31
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)
Division:
42nd Bn.
Birth:
August 1, 1884
Death:
November 21, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. B. 44.
Digital gallery of Private George Cox
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Diary
The deaths of George Johnston (November 12th), Richard Smith Marshall (November 19th) and George Cox (November 21st) were reported in the War Diary of the 42nd Canadian Infantry Battalion for November 1915.<P> Source: War Diary 42nd Canadian Infantry Battalion. War Diaries of the First World War. Library and Archives Canada Source: War Diary 42nd Canadian Infantry Battalion. War Diaries of the First World War. Library and Archives Canada -
Attestation Papers
Source: Library and Archives Canada -
Attestation Papers (Reverse)
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Grave Marker
Photo courtesy Wilf Schofield, England -
Entrance
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CORBI to COZNI. Microform Sequence 23; Volume Number 31829_B016732. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 167. Page 801 of 900. Initially buried in Rosenberg Chateau Military Cemetery. In 1930 the bodies of soldiers buried here were exhumed and re-interred in Berks Cemetery Extension. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Montreal Star 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private George Cox
Digital gallery of
Private George Cox
Digital gallery of
Private George Cox
Digital gallery of
Private George Cox
Digital gallery of
Private George Cox
Digital gallery of
Private George Cox
Digital gallery of
Private George Cox
Digital gallery of
Private George Cox
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 10 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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