| Notes: | MFP. Served Home. He enlisted 2/3/15 in the 2/8 London Regiment, No. 3235, age 40.5 years, occupation Postman, Home address: 3 Cecil Grove, Armley, Leeds. 2/3/15 transferred to MFP, 8/1918 serving in Oxford. Discharged no longer physically fit for war service 14/5/18 suffering from Tuberculosis. Died at Woking, 26/5/18. 6/12/1920 wife Annie received £12/15/00 war gratuity. Army Register of Soldiers' Effects, 1901 -1929. 24/8/1901 he married Annie Elicia Hutton, spinster at St Mary's Church, New Wortley Leeds, they had 5 children.
Info from pension index cards:- Cox, Alfred, P/6145, MFP, A/Sgt. 14/5/1918 discharged, 25/5/1918 died from advanced lateral pulmonary TB and cardiac failure aggravated by active service. His wife Annie, born 1/10/1875 of 3 Cecil Grove, Armley, Leeds, Yorkshire who received 40/05 per week from 3/6/1918. 23/7/1918 she received a grant of £10. They had 5 Children, Gladys born 10/6/1883, William Edward born 28/7/1885, Lucinda Dawson born 13/9/1907, Mable, born 23/5/1911 and Harry, born 15/3/1913.
Alfred Cox. |
