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Pte. Alfred Cockerill
British Army 4th Battalion Grenadier Guards
from:Commondale, Yorkshire
The Commondale Village WWI Commemoration booklet lists two Commondale men who went to London in 1914 and joined the 4th Bn Grenadier Guards.
The information below is attributed to Franka and taken from this publication:
Alfred Cockrill 19205 died at Chalfont Colony, The National Society for the Employment of Epileptics, Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire on the 20th August 1920 as a result of a gun shot wound to the head suffered while serving with the 4th Btn in July 1916.
His friend Robert Leggot 19208 joined the 4th Btn Grenadier Guards at the same time and was killed on 25 September 1916 and is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial.