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Digital gallery of Private Frank Cox
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Digital gallery of
Private Frank Cox
15th Bn cap badge. Submitted by Capt (Ret`d) S. W. Gilbert, 15th Battalion Memorial Project Team.
DILEAS GU BRATH
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Cox
1ST Division, 3rd Brigade shoulder patch worn by 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders of Canada). Submitted by Capt (Ret`d) S. W. Gilbert, 15th Battalion Memorial Project Team.
DILEAS GU BRATH
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Cox
One of two memorial plaques dedicated on 24 April 2010 to commemorate those members of the 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders of Canada) who fell during the 2nd Battle of Ypres 22-26 April 1915. This memorial is located on Gravenstafel Ridge. DILEAS GU BRATH
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Cox
One of two memorial plaques dedicated on 24 April 2010 to commemorate those members of the 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders of Canada) who fell during the 2nd Battle of Ypres 22-26 April 1915. This memorial is located in the town of St. Julien. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Private Frank Cox
Menin Gate panel where Private Frank Cox is commemorated. Photo by BGen Young (ret) and submitted by Capt (ret) V Goldman of the 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Private Frank Cox
Record of Service Card (front side). courtesy 48th Highlanders of Canada Regimental Museum. submitted by 15th bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Cox
Record of Service Card (reverse side). courtesy 48th Highlanders of Canada Regimental Museum. submitted by 15th bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Cox
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 795 of 900.
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Cox
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Cox
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Cox
A genuine photo postcard of Frank Cox from the 15th Battalion. This card was found inside an album that was purchased at an estate sale in Nova Scotia back in 2020 by Andrew Webb-Trezzi and it remains in his collection. It depicts Cox with the Battalion mascot “Max”. Before the discovery of this card, no known image of Cox was available. During my research into Cox following the discovery of this card, I was able to identify him in another photo of 6 Highlanders. In this photo he is depicted kneeling on the left side in the front row holding a kitten. The only other man identified in this image is Private David Cunningham Miloy standing in the back middle. These photos were taken at West Down Camp South on Salisbury Plain at some point between the 16th of October when the battalion arrived there from Canada and the 16th of December when it relocated to Larkhill Camp. The man that went to London in search of Cox as is described on the reverse is currently unknown.
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Cox
. During my research into Cox following the discovery of this card, I was able to identify him in another photo of 6 Highlanders. In this photo he is depicted kneeling on the left side in the front row holding a kitten. The only other man identified in this image is Private David Cunningham Miloy standing in the back middle. These photos were taken at West Down Camp South on Salisbury Plain at some point between the 16th of October when the battalion arrived there from Canada and the 16th of December when it relocated to Larkhill Camp. The man that went to London in search of Cox as is described on the reverse is currently unknown.
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Cox
Frank Cox is mentioned, From the Toronto Telegram June 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Cox
From the Toronto Telegram June 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Frank Cox
From the Toronto Telegram November 1914. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Image gallery
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15th Bn cap badge. Submitted by Capt (Ret`d) S. W. Gilbert, 15th Battalion Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
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1ST Division, 3rd Brigade shoulder patch worn by 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders of Canada). Submitted by Capt (Ret`d) S. W. Gilbert, 15th Battalion Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
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One of two memorial plaques dedicated on 24 April 2010 to commemorate those members of the 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders of Canada) who fell during the 2nd Battle of Ypres 22-26 April 1915. This memorial is located on Gravenstafel Ridge. DILEAS GU BRATH
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One of two memorial plaques dedicated on 24 April 2010 to commemorate those members of the 15th Battalion (48th Highlanders of Canada) who fell during the 2nd Battle of Ypres 22-26 April 1915. This memorial is located in the town of St. Julien. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Menin Gate panel where Private Frank Cox is commemorated. Photo by BGen Young (ret) and submitted by Capt (ret) V Goldman of the 15th Bn Memorial Project. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Record of Service Card (front side). courtesy 48th Highlanders of Canada Regimental Museum. submitted by 15th bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
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Record of Service Card (reverse side). courtesy 48th Highlanders of Canada Regimental Museum. submitted by 15th bn Memorial Project Team. DILEAS GU BRATH
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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 795 of 900.
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Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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A genuine photo postcard of Frank Cox from the 15th Battalion. This card was found inside an album that was purchased at an estate sale in Nova Scotia back in 2020 by Andrew Webb-Trezzi and it remains in his collection. It depicts Cox with the Battalion mascot “Max”. Before the discovery of this card, no known image of Cox was available. During my research into Cox following the discovery of this card, I was able to identify him in another photo of 6 Highlanders. In this photo he is depicted kneeling on the left side in the front row holding a kitten. The only other man identified in this image is Private David Cunningham Miloy standing in the back middle. These photos were taken at West Down Camp South on Salisbury Plain at some point between the 16th of October when the battalion arrived there from Canada and the 16th of December when it relocated to Larkhill Camp. The man that went to London in search of Cox as is described on the reverse is currently unknown.
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. During my research into Cox following the discovery of this card, I was able to identify him in another photo of 6 Highlanders. In this photo he is depicted kneeling on the left side in the front row holding a kitten. The only other man identified in this image is Private David Cunningham Miloy standing in the back middle. These photos were taken at West Down Camp South on Salisbury Plain at some point between the 16th of October when the battalion arrived there from Canada and the 16th of December when it relocated to Larkhill Camp. The man that went to London in search of Cox as is described on the reverse is currently unknown.
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Frank Cox is mentioned, From the Toronto Telegram June 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram June 1915. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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From the Toronto Telegram November 1914. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
MENIN GATE (YPRES) MEMORIAL Belgium
The Menin Gate Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town of Ypres (now Ieper) in the Province of West Flanders, on the road to Menin and Courtrai. It bears the names of 55,000 men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and erected by the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission, it consists of a Hall of Memory", 36.6 metres long by 20.1 metres wide. In the centre are broad staircases leading to the ramparts which overlook the moat, and to pillared loggias which run the whole length of the structure. On the inner walls of the Hall, on the side of the staircases and on the walls of the loggias, panels of Portland stone bear the names of the dead, inscribed by regiment and corps. Carved in stone above the central arch are the words:
TO THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO STOOD HERE FROM 1914 TO 1918 AND TO THOSE OF THEIR DEAD WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE.
Over the two staircases leading from the main Hall is the inscription:
HERE ARE RECORDED NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH.
The dead are remembered to this day in a simple ceremony that takes place every evening at 8:00 p.m. All traffic through the gateway in either direction is halted, and two buglers (on special occasions four) move to the centre of the Hall and sound the Last Post. Two silver trumpets for use in the ceremony are a gift to the Ypres Last Post Committee by an officer of the Royal Canadian Artillery, who served with the 10th Battery, of St. Catharines, Ontario, in Ypres in April 1915."
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