Name
Richard Henry Cocke
1892
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/07/1918
26
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Sapper
134171
Royal Engineers
9th Field Coy.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
PERNES BRITISH CEMETERY
V. D. 13.
France
Headstone Inscription
REST IN THE LORD
UK & Other Memorials
Bishop's Stortford Town Memorial Holy Trinity Church Memorial, Bishop's Stortford
Pre War
Richard Henry Cocke was born in Bishop's Stortford in 1892, the son of Walter and Lydia Cocke. On the 1901 Census he was living with his family at Nursery Road, Bishop's Stortford where his father was a carpenter. By the 1911 Census his father had died and he was living with his widowed mother and siblings at 10 Nursery Road, Bishop's Stortford and working as a plumber.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Bishop's Stortford and served in France in the Royal Engineers. He died of wounds during the German Spring Offensives, at a Canadian Casualty Clearing Station in Pernes, France, where the cemetery is now situated. Almost all the burials in the Pernes Cemetery were made by the 1st, 4th, 6th and 22nd Canadian Casualty Clearing Stations which were using the site from April 1918.
Additional Information
His mother Lydia received a war gratuity of £12 10s and pay owing of £10 0s 10d. Surname spelt in various ways, e.g. Cocks, Cockes rather than original Cocke.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
