Memorial

Second Lieutenant R W Talbot Cox BA

Mark Newton 14 June 2016

Source: Copyright Mark Newton 14 June 2016

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Current Location

All Saints Church, Portland Road, Wyke Regis, Weymouth And Portland, Dorset, DT4 9EZ, England

SY 66219 77792

Church of England

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Type of Memorial: Board / Plaque / Tablet
WMR Reference Number: 963
Description: Inscribed, square, stone tablet with relief of sword piercing regimental badge at centre top.
Inscription: TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND TO THE DEAR MEMORY OF/ ROBERT WILLIAM TALBOT COX, B.A./ SCHOLAR OF NEW COLLEGE OXFORD/ 2ND LT OF THE 6TH BATTN. OF THE DORSETSHIRE REGT/ ELDEST AND LAST SURVIVING SON OF GEORGE TALBOT COX/ OF WEST NORWOOD SURREY/ AND OF MARY ELIZABETH HIS WIFE/ AND GRANDSON OF ROBERT COX HIS WIFE/ FORMERLY OF RODWELL IN THIS PARISH/ KILLED NEAR ST ELOI ON THE MORNING OF THE 15TH FEB. 1916/ IN THE GREAT EUROPEAN WAR/ WHILST IN THE ACT OF RESCUING A WOUNDED SOLDIER OF THE LINCOLNSHIRE REGT./ AGED 25 YEARS./ HIS BODY RESTS IN A SOLDIERS GRAVE/ NEAR THE VILLAGE OF VOORMEZEELE, IN WESTERN FLANDERS.

War: First World War (1914-1918)
Number Commemorated: 1
Died: 1
Information shown: Forename, middle name, surname, rank, battalion, regiment, place of death, date of death, method of death, place of burial

Tablet

Made from: Stone

Condition: Good