Only William Joseph = 2 Privates London Gazette 9 Oct 1914 shows a William Joseph Cox being commissioned as a 2/Lt in the Mx Regiment having been a QMS in the Berkshires http://www.gazettes-online.co.uk/issues/28932/pages/8042/page.pdf

Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

Festubert (15-25 May 1915) was really a continuation of the Battle of Aubers Ridge that had been called off on 10th May, and in places fought over the same ground with the same depressing outcome. Some minor tactical success was achieved but it did not justify the 16,000 casualties. It did however reinforce the lessons of Neuve Chapelle and Aubers Ridge and conditioned planning and thinking that evolved into the tactical planning of the Somme in 1916.

Detail :

Probate Record: COX, William Joseph of 26 Aere Street, Stroud, Gloucestershire, a second lieutenant, 3rd battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment. Died 17th May 1915 at Richbourg, France. Killed in Action. Administration Gloucester 3 Septemmber to Louisa Rose Cox, widow. Effects £192 5s. 7d.

Masonic :

Joined the Wayfarers Lodge No. 1926 in Malta on 11th April 1914. He was previously in and came from the Irish Constitution under Clotworthy Lodge 593, Co. Antrim. Records of Wayfarers at United Grand Lodge show "Killed in action May 1915"

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley