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Name Christopher Cox No. 13909
VC Issue No. 784 Awards VC
Regiment Bedfordshire Regiment, 7th Battalion, B Company
Later
Now Royal Anglian Regiment
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Private
Place Of Birth Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England
Place Of Death Hill End Hospital, Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England
Buried/Location Ashes Kings Langley Cemetery, Watford Road, Hertfordshire, England
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no.
Gazetted 11 May 1917
VC Presented 21 July 1917 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Headstone, Kings Langley Cemetery, Watford Road, Hertfordshire, England
P Memorial, Achiet-le-Grand, Pas-de-Calais, France
Memorial, All Saints Church, Kings Langly, Hertfordshire
By The Way…
After the war he worked in the Ovaltine Factory, Kings Langley
VC Held By
Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, Kennington, London, England
BORN 25 December 1889
DIED 28 April 1959 AGE 69
VC Won 13 March 1917 AGE 27
Place VC Won Achiet-le-Grand, France
War/Campaign First World War 1917