Private 10679 Fred HANCOX

Private 10679 Fred Hancox{gallery}Pte F Hancox{/gallery}1st Battalion, Sherwood Foresters
Killed in action in the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, France and Flanders, 12th March 1915

• Commemorated: Le Touret Memorial, Pas-de-Calais, France. Panels 26 and 27
• Awarded: British War and Victory Medals (but was due 1914/15 Star as well)
• Son of Samuel and Mary Hancox [nee Hawtin now Townsend] of 5 Meadow Street, Nuneaton
  
• NNWFHS Memorial: No Known Memorial
  

Links to Relevant Information

• CWGC Page for Private Hancox
• Le Touret Memorial
• Sherwood Foresters

1911 Census and Family History Information

• Born c1889 at Tysoe, Warks
• Lived at Duck Pond, Tysoe [1901]
  
• Employed as a farm labourer [1908]
  
• Enlisted at Nottingham 28 Feb 1908. Served in India between 1909 and 1914. Joined the B.E.F 4 Nov 1914