Name
Arthur John Cox
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
13/10/1915
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Bombardier
1626
Royal Field Artillery
2nd/1st Norfolk Battery, East Anglian Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
CAISTER OLD CEMETERY
F. 149. 1065.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial
Pre War
Born in 1894 son of Richard and Harriet Cox of 50 Victoria Road, Great Yarmouth.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Great Yarmouth. Killed by a Zeppelin raid in Hertford town while on leave. Oberleutnant-zur-See W. Peterson, in the then new German Zeppelin L16, bombed Hertford at 2200 on 13 Oct 1915 after mistaking the River Lea for the Thames. He thought that he was attacking East London when he dropped 48 incendiary and explosive bombs. The bombs from L16 killed 9 people and injured 15.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
