Lot 551
AN OFFICER CASUALTY TRIO 25th N. FUSILIERS. (TYNESIDE IRISH)
A 1914/15 Star named to 17500 Pte P C Cox. Notts & Derby R. British War & Victory Medals named to 2/Lt P C Cox.
Percy Cyril Cox served with his Regiment in France from the 26th January 1915. He was commissioned into the Northumberland Fusiliers (30th Battalion-Training) on the 3rd December 1915. Then into the 2nd Battalion 25th N Fusiliers (2nd Tyneside Irish), on the 18th April 1917. Posted missing during an attack on the 28/4/1917, later confirmed as Killed in Action on that date. The medals were sent to his father, H E Cox esq, Chestnut Grove, Radcliffe on Trent. Nottinghamshire..
Aged 21 the son of Henry Edwin and Lily Cox of the above address. Commemorated on bays 2 & 3 of the Arras Memorial.
