Name
Robert Coxall
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/05/1918
19
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
266200
Hertfordshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN
P. XI. G. 1B.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Royston Town War Memorial,
Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
The Soldiers Died In The Great War (SDITGW) database records that he was living in Royston when he enlisted in Hertford.
Wartime Service
Enlisted in the army in November 1914 and was attached to the Royal Flying Corps, as an instructor in signalling. He was sent to France in January 1918 and transferred to the Hertfordshire Regiment. He died on 14 May 1918 after being gassed, and had been
Additional Information
His brother, Alfred Coxall, was killed in action on 15 September 1916 whilst serving with the Bedfordshire Regiment.
Listed as a lance corporal on the regimental memorial
Acknowledgments
Paul Johnson
