Wilfred Edmund Cox
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Revision as of 02:11, 22 March 2018
COX, Wilfred Edmund
Service no: 6237 [1]
Place of birth: Orange, 11 May 1881
Address: Perth House, George Street, Parramatta
Occupation: Brick labourer
Next of kin: Alice Maud Cox (wife), Perth House, George Street, Parramatta
Date of enlistment: 12 October 1915
Place of enlistment: Liverpool
Age at enlistment: 34
Fate: Embarked HMAT A14 Euripides, Sydney 9 September 1916. Disembarked Plymouth, 26 October 1916. Marched in to 4th Training Battalion, Codford, 17 November 1916. Embarked Princess Clementine, Folkestone, 20 December 1916. Disembarked, Etaples, 22 December 1916. Taken on strength with 13th Battalion, France, 2 January 1917. Admitted to 4th Australian Field Ambulance with trench foot, 31 January 1917. Rejoined unit 13 February 1917. Admitted to 4th Australian Field Ambulance with influenza, 4 April 1917. Transferred to No 9 General Hospital, Rouen, with pyrexia of uncertain origin, 10 April 1917. Embarked HS St George, Rouen, 25 April 1917. Admitted to Richmond Military Hospital, England, with trench fever, 27 April 1917. Admitted to 1st Auxiliary Hospital, Harefield, 29 May 1917. Reported to Weymouth Depot 28 July 1917. Marched in to No 4 Command Depot, Codford, 23 August 1917. Marched out to Overseas Training Battalion, Hurdcott, 14 November 1917. Embarked for France, Southampton, 3 January 1918. Marched in to Havre, 4 January 1918. Rejoined 13th Battalion, Havre, 7 January 1918. Killed in action, Neuve Eglise, Belgium, 22 March 1918.
Date of death: 22 March 1918, aged 36
Buried: Nieuwkerke (Neuve Eglise) Churchyard, Belgium, Plot 1, Row F, Grave 5
