Name
Bertie Frederick Cockman
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/12/1918
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private 2nd Class
186128
Royal Air Force
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WARE NEW CEMETERY
83.5.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Ware Town Memorial
St Mary’s Church Memorial, Ware
Christchurch Memorial, Ware
Pre War
Born in 1886 in Ware, Hertfordshire son of Henry and Alice Maria Cockman and was living at 5 Council Houses, Musley Hill, Ware in 1901 and working as a bird-scarer. He married Lily Fisher in 1917 in Norwich. Formerly 11617, 2nd Bn. Royal Fusiliers he had been in the service since 1906 and was in India in 1911.
Wartime Service
He entered the Western Front in 1916 and appears to have suffered with a “disordered action of the heart” and was evacuated on 7 Mar 1917. He died in Cambridge after the end of WW1.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
