Wars Last Goodbyes
Individual Record

St John the Baptist Eastnor

Inscription

This wooden cross marked the grave

Of Staff Captain

Reginald Somers-Cocks MC

26th Infantry Brigade attached Somerset Light Infantry

In Lijssenhoek Military Cemetery, Poperinghe

From 1918 to 1922

He was killed by a shell at Ouderdom near Kemmel Hill

On April 28th 1918 - aged 23 years

RIP

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On wall below original wooden grave marker in Eastnor Church, Herefordshire

Place of Inscription

St John the Baptist Eastnor

Herefordshire

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Reginald

Somers-Cocks

24th July 1894

Staple Fitzpaine, Somerset

24th April 1918

Killed by a high explosive shell whilst seeking shelter for his men outside Ouderdom, Belgium

23

Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Flanders, Belgium

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First World War

Captain (Staff Captain)

7th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry

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26th Infantry Brigade

Military Cross

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