Private George Cock; NER Magazine 1917 page 3
George Cock was a native of Doddington in the Cheviots, but at the time of enlisting he was employed on the NER at West Hartlepool Docks. Before coming to Hartlepool a few years before, he worked as groom in his native place where, according to a local paper, his forefathers had lived from time immemorial.
He was killed in action on August the 7th 1916. Age 35.
Source: NER Railway Magazine 1917 page 3
Both Soldiers Died in the Great War and the CWGC record his death as 07/10/1916.
George Cock is remembered in Wooler on W68.01, in Doddington on D13.01, on the York Railway Memorial.and in the DLI Book of Remembrance page 277.
