Private 8444 Cockerill 1st Battalion

[looby42]

Would the gentleman who contacted me some weeks ago about my grandad please make contact again. You posted some information about him but my laptop was stolen and now the old site has been archived, I've no way of getting the information back again or of finding your details. I'm putting together a memento for my dad for Christmas and woud be very grateful for anything to add.

[scully]

Hi,

I checked the archives of the forum and found that two people replied to your request for help with information on Private William Cockerill.
Neville Davies replied first his email address was neville@halldavies.com

Mick Jones also replied - he is also a member of this new forum and you can get his email contact details by clicking on the Memberslist button at the top of this forum page.

Hope this helps.

Louis
webmaster

[nevilleowen]

Hi, was it your grandad who was in the 1st and was wounded in 1917, if so it was me. My Grandad was in the 1st from 1908 - camels, Egypt.

You can get me on neville@halldavies.com

Neville

[AJS]

I think it may have been me that emailed you, unfortunately my old emails disappeared into the ether in a malfunction on my computer. According to the 1914 Star Medal Roll, Private W Cockerill 8444 landed in France with the 1st Worcestershire on 05.11.1914. He was discharged on 30.11.1917. Was this the information supplied ?

[looby42]

Yes that's the information relating to my grandad. He was discharged and awarded a SWB. All of his memoirs etc have been lost over time but I'm very interested in tracing his army career for my dad. He joined as a boy soldier in 1905 aged 15. Can you supply me with any further information or are you researching your own family member?

[AJS]

The information I gave you is all I know about your grandfather, however I looked him up on the medal roll on the National Archives website WO 372/4 and he is listed there. There was also a Pte George Cockerill of the Worcestershire Regt listed on it with him. You can get the infomation for them for £3.50 each record.
The 1901 census on the National Archives website shows William Cockerill born in Birmingham in 1890 and a George Cockerill born in Birmingham 1893 so they could be brothers. this census would give you the address where he lived in 1901 and the names of all of his family.

[allanp]

It may take over 12 months but information can still arrive.

I have a preport in the Worcester Herald on the 27th February 1915 of 8444 Pte W. Cockrill being admitted to the 1st Norfolk and Norwich Hospital Norwich, Wounded on the 5th February 1915

Reported on the 24th April 1915, Rejoined 5th Battalion 20 April 1915.

Hope this helps.

Regards Allan

[looby42]

Hi

Many many thanks for this. I had given up on ever finding any information and have started looking at other members of my family tree. Where can I find the report to which you refer? I'm really hopeless at the military research!!

Thanks again

[allanp]

You can find this information on microfise at the Worcester Library & History Centre, Trinity St, Worcester.

Regards Allan