220116 Sgt. George David Cox British Army 1st Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment from:Birmingham (d.11th April 1917) George Cox was in the Army from 1900 to 1908 and when he left he got married and became a tram driver in Birmingham. At the outbreak of the War he was called as a reservist and was back with the 1st Bn Warwicks in October 1914. At the Battle of Arras in 1917, I believe, he was killed when the enemy shelled the regiment's assembly point. He has no grave and his name is recorded in the Arras memorial. He is also commemorated in the Birmingham Book of Remembrance. I have a copy of the April 11th pages of the battalion's war diary and the war graves commission remembrance web page. He is commemorated in bay 3 of the Arras Memorial
My late dad was 5 years old and remembered him on leave around the new year 1917. He says he was a big man with a moustache, but when you look at contemporary photographs they were all big men with moustaches! I'm always amazed that that having been in it so long and knowing all the horrors he still went back. He died very soon after his return to the front.
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