Casualty Details

Name:	COX, EDGAR WILLIAM
Initials:	E W
Nationality:	United Kingdom
Rank:	Brigadier General
Regiment/Service:	General Staff
Unit Text:	Head of Intelligence at G.H.Q.
Secondary Regiment:	Royal Engineers
Secondary Unit Text:	formerly
Age:	36
Date of Death:	26/08/1918
Awards:	D S O, Mentioned in Despatches
Additional information:	Officer of the Order of the Crown (Belgium), Officer of the Order of Saint Maurice and Saint Lazarus (Italy). Son of George William and Louisa Hannah Cox; husband of Nora I. Cox, of Morningside, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, S. Africa.
Casualty Type:	Commonwealth War Dead
Grave/Memorial Reference:	XXVIII. O. 4.
Cemetery:	ETAPLES MILITARY CEMETERY