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Dear Barbara,
Thank you very much for all that.It was very kind of you to make the effort on my behalf. I really appreciate it.
I had written to the vicar at his Danby address and sent him a draft of the story so he could use it in the church magazine
and no reply, so not much point in wasting more time there.
I would be pleased to have contact with the gentelman looking after the graveyard. You have my email address.
Again thank you and if some thing turns up I will pass the information on for reference.
Warmest regards Franka.

Dear Babara
Have you been able to visit Commondale yet?
I still have had no reply from the Vicar even though I gave him a copy of my article in case he found it interesting for the Church mag.
Best Wishest Franka.

The search for the grave of Alfred Cockerill still continues.The only place not searched for this WWI casualty is Commondale Church Yard. The records for this church are not held in any County Archives.I have the name of the Vicar  but not an address to write too. Does anyone live near Commondale who would be willing to see if this poor man was buried there or give me an address to write to. My email is .
I am doing this work on behalf of the CWGC.
Franka.

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Thank you for your help. The following extract is the result of research

In July 1916 the 4th Battalion Grenadier Guards were holding trenches near Ypres. They were attacks on both sides of their position resulting in close quarter fighting and shelling. There was also sniper activity. In these actions Alfred Cockerill was wounded in the head. Alf was sent home.  Back in UK, he was declare unfit for any futher duty.


And what of poor Alf Cockrill who had joined the Regiment a healthy young man? His head wound had serious damaged him. He now had epilepsy and  would never  return to the moors. He was one of the many head injuries and shellshock cases  places in mental hospitals.
I traced Alf to Buckinghamshire where he died and applied for his death certificate. It revealed that he had been examined by doctors from the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic in London. He had been sent to the Chalfont Colony opened 1894  by The National Society for the Employment of Epileptics, Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire. He spent four years there, dying  at the  Epilepsia Colony on 11th August 1920 of Epilepsy and Meningitis . He had clearly died of war wounds as the Commondale stone stated.
Franka