Commemorated:

1. Book:The (1921) Masonic Roll of Honour 1914-1918Pg.120
2. Memorial:The (1940) Scroll - WW1 Roll of Honour31D GQS
    

Awards & Titles:

 

Only William Joseph = 2 Privates London Gazette 9 Oct 1914 shows a William Joseph Cox being commissioned as a 2/Lt in the Mx Regiment having been a QMS in the Berkshires http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/issues/28932/pages/8042/page.pdf

Service Life:

Campaigns:

Unit / Ship / Est.: Not Yet Known 

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Action : The Battle of Festubert 

Festubert (15-25 May 1915) was really a continuation of the Battle of Aubers Ridge that had been called off on 10th May, and in places fought over the same ground with the same depressing outcome. Some minor tactical success was achieved but it did not justify the 16,000 casualties. It did however reinforce the lessons of Neuve Chapelle and Aubers Ridge and conditioned planning and thinking that evolved into the tactical planning of the Somme in 1916.

Professional Soldier
Quarter Master Sergeant (1914)

Detail :

Probate Record: COX, William Joseph of 26 Aere Street, Stroud, Gloucestershire, a second lieutenant, 3rd battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment. Died 17th May 1915 at Richbourg, France. Killed in Action. Administration Gloucester 3 Septemmber to Louisa Rose Cox, widow. Effects £192 5s. 7d.

Masonic :

TypeLodge Name and No.Province/District :
Mother : An Irish Lodge No. 0 I.C.Irish Constitution
Joined : Wayfarers No. 1926 E.C. Malta

Initiated
Passed
Raised
11th April 1914
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Joined the Wayfarers Lodge No. 1926 in Malta on 11th April 1914. He was previously in and came from the Irish Constitution under Clotworthy Lodge 593, Co. Antrim. Records of Wayfarers at United Grand Lodge show "Killed in action May 1915"


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