COX, Anthony Francis
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Rank:
Rifleman
Unit / Base:
3 Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Rifle Brigade
Service:
Army
Number:
6920635
Died :
Sunday, July 18, 1943
Killed in action or died of wounds
Age:
18
Cemetery/Memorial:
Operations:
Rifleman Anthony Cox died of wounds during operations at Agnone, Sicily, and the bridge at Malati (3 Commando Bridge). Son of Cecil Ernest and Frances Mary Cox, of Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey.
Sources
CWGC.
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/64.
ROH in Commando-Memoirs of a Fighting Commando in WW2 by Brig Durnford-Slater.
ROH in Commando-Memoirs of a Fighting Commando in WW2 by Brig Durnford-Slater.
Notes
In the book Storm from the Sea, the author, Brig Peter Young, describes a Commando named Cox as being batman to Major Walter Skrine, and both being severely wounded during the landings at Agnone.
In the book Storm from the Sea, the author, Brig Peter Young, describes a Commando named Cox as being batman to Major Walter Skrine, and both being severely wounded during the landings at Agnone.
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