Private William Cox

Ancestor Details

Ancestor's Name: William James Cox

Ancestor's date of birth: 31/03/1866

Ancestor's date of death: 15/10/1950

Cause of Death: Stroke

Service Number: 335

Colony or State of enlistment: NSW Place of Enlistment: Volunteers for this Contingent came from Cootamundra, Gundagi, Wagga, Young, Hay, Cooma, Cobar, Tenterfield, Bourke

Unit: NSW Imperial Bushman

Rank attained in Boer War: PTE, Date Effective: Detail not provided

Highest Rank attained (if served after war): Detail not provided

Murray Page: 92 Contingent: A Company

Ship: Armenian, Date of Sailing: 23/04/1900

Memorial details: Name is listed on the East Maitland Memorial

Decorations: Boer War medals now in Victoria Barracks Museum

Personal Characteristics: He was a good father and worked hard. He was a very stately gentleman.

Reasons to go and fight: He liked the military life and was only 18 years old when he went to the Sudan War.

Details of service in war: He was a Sudan Contingent Soldier in 1885. The Imperial Bushman returned to Australia on the Orient embarking at East London SA on the 23rd June 1901 arriving in Sydney on the 17th July 1901, having already called in to the ports of Albany and Melbourne.

Service and life after the Boer War: Detail not provided

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Arthur Cox, Cabramatta NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Son

Name of Descendant: Pamela Johnston Nee Cox, Blacktown NSW
Relationship to Ancestor: Granddaughter

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