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Yorkshire (North Riding) / Alfred Cockerill
« on: Wednesday 27 August 08 15:15 BST (UK) »
On Commondale Moor there is a war memorial with two names only on it. These were two young men who tended sheep on the moor. In 1914 they both went to London together and joined the Grenadier Guards.
Robert Leggott lied about his age, he was only 17. He was killed in 1916 on the Somme aged 19 an his bodied never found His name is on the Thiepval Memorial in Flanders.
The other was an olderman and it is he who presents a problem. He was wounded in the head at the Battle of Ypres on 9th July 1916 . He was sent back to England and discharged with a small pension 6th Dec 1916. By 1920 he was dead and the Commondale Stone states died of wounds. The Common War Graves Commission do not have him registered. I am trying to correct this error. I have searched for the death cert of Alfred Cockerill who live with his Step father John Wheldon and his mother Mary Wheldon at Ganiston House Commondale N.Yorks. The only Alf Cockerill aged 31 was registered at Amersham Bucks 1920 3a 710 Q3. Was this our Yorkshireman? With a head shot wound he could have been in a Home in Bucks. His body could have been sent back to Commondale.
This is a life long mystery and I would like to put the matter straight.
My connection with these two young men is that I served in WW2 in the Grenadiers.
Any help will be very welcome.
Franka
Robert Leggott lied about his age, he was only 17. He was killed in 1916 on the Somme aged 19 an his bodied never found His name is on the Thiepval Memorial in Flanders.
The other was an olderman and it is he who presents a problem. He was wounded in the head at the Battle of Ypres on 9th July 1916 . He was sent back to England and discharged with a small pension 6th Dec 1916. By 1920 he was dead and the Commondale Stone states died of wounds. The Common War Graves Commission do not have him registered. I am trying to correct this error. I have searched for the death cert of Alfred Cockerill who live with his Step father John Wheldon and his mother Mary Wheldon at Ganiston House Commondale N.Yorks. The only Alf Cockerill aged 31 was registered at Amersham Bucks 1920 3a 710 Q3. Was this our Yorkshireman? With a head shot wound he could have been in a Home in Bucks. His body could have been sent back to Commondale.
This is a life long mystery and I would like to put the matter straight.
My connection with these two young men is that I served in WW2 in the Grenadiers.
Any help will be very welcome.
Franka