420059 Serjeant Douglas Norrie COX MM,1st Lothians & Border Horse, Royal Armoured Corps: 08/02/1945

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  1. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery Patron

    Remembering Today

    Casualty Details | CWGC
    Serjeant DOUGLAS NORRIE COX
    M M
    420059, 1st Lothians and Border Horse, Royal Armoured Corps
    who died age 25
    on 08 February 1945
    Son of Thomas Francis and Mary Callander Cox, of Edinburgh.
    Remembered with honour
    MOOK WAR CEMETERY
    Grave Reference: II. A. 11.
    Location: Netherlands
    Additional Info: Son of Thomas Francis and Mary Callander Cox, of Edinburgh.
    Personal Inscription: FOREVER IN THE HEARTS OF HIS MOTHER, SISTER GLADYS, BROTHERS TOM AND JAMES


    20th December 1940 awarded the Military Medal
    420059 Lance-Corporal DOUGLAS NORRIE Cox,
    Royal Armoured Corps (Yeomanry)
    http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/35020/supplements/7174/page.pdf
     
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  2. Pieter F

    Pieter F Very Senior Member

    Remebering Today-D.N.Cox M.M. 1st Lothians and Border Horse, Royal Armoured Corps

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    Pieter F, Feb 8, 2011
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    The National Archives | DocumentsOnline | Image Details
    Name: Cox, Douglas
    Rank: Trooper
    Service No: 420059
    Regiment:1 Lothians & Border Yeomanry
    Theatre of Combat or Operation: British Expeditionary Force 1939-40
    Award: Military Medal
    Date of Announcement in London Gazette: 20 December 1940
    Date: 1940-1942
    Catalogue reference: WO 373/16

    420059 Trooper Douglas COX, 1st Lothians & Border Yeomanry
    51st Division

    At OISEMONT on June 6th Trooper COX was the driver of a motor cycle combination.

    He conveyed his Squadron Leader under shell fire when visiting his troops, and in the course of these journeys received a wound in the leg.

    Later when the Squadron had been ordered to withdraw, he carried a message, despite his wound to one Troop, through heavy machine gun and shell fire and, as a result, the troop were able to effect a withdrawal intact.

    Had the message not got through, the troop undoubtedly would have been cut off.
    :poppy:
    WO 373/16-ir1096-pg387
     

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  4. Pieter F

    Pieter F Very Senior Member

    A very brave action.
     
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  5. Drew5233

    Drew5233 #FuturePilot 1940 Obsessive

    Cheers Geoff. Sadly I don't have his diary for 1940

    :poppy:
     
    Drew5233, Feb 8, 2011
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    Sgt Doug Cox was a fellow crew member & friend of my father, Harry (Cecil) Mitchinson. They were together in their Sherman Crab flail tank on July 18, 1944, when they came under an attack by mortars ("moaning Minnie's"). Gunner Ronald Oates was badly injured by shrapnel and evacuated. This is described in the Lothians' War Diaries. Another member of the crew under this attack was Doug Ledgard, who was also later killed in Holland several months later.
     
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