Cox, Miles Standish by Central Coast Council

Gosford District Casualties of World War One Bragg, Edmund Allen Cox, Miles Standish

Service ServiceNumber Number1494 165 Killed in Action 19th May 1915 Died of illness 16th December 1915 Gallipoli Peninsula Cairo, Egypt

Gosford City Council gratefully acknowledges the voluntary efforts of Benalyn Campbell And Vivienne Tranter in compiling this resource

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NAME

Cox, Miles Standish

SERVICE NO

165

UNIT

4th Battalion

RANK

Private

AGE at Enlistment

23 yrs

PLACE OF BIRTH

Rylstone, NSW

ADDRESS OCCUPATION

Station Hand

DATE OF ENLISTMENT

17 Aug 1914

PLACE OF ENLISTMENT

Randwick, NSW

PREVIOUS SERVICE

18 mths Colonial Forces Light Horse

NEXT OF KIN

Father Edward Standish Cox, Wagstaff Point, Woy Woy Mother Alice V Cox

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Height-5’11¾”.Weight-11st. 5 lbs. Chest-34-38½ Complexion-Ruddy. Eyes-Blue/Grey. Hair-Dk Brown.

RELIGION

C/E

EMBARKED

Sydney 20 Oct 1914 per “Euripides”

DISEMBARKED NOTES

Brother Edward Standish Cox d pneumonia 13 Dec 1914 Alexandria, Egypt.

WOUNDED/ILLNESS

Pneumonia, Mena Hospital Cairo, Egypt

DIED

16 Dec 1915

BURIED

Cairo Cem Sec 3 Gve 129

MEDALS

1914-15 Star-26565, British War Medal-3256, Victory Medal-3256. Memorial Plaque & Scroll-985803.

DEPENDANTS PERSONAL EFFECTS WILL

Bible, Pocket Book, tin Chocolates, Knife, Letters.

EDWARD KING STANDISH COX (29) AND MILES STANDISH COX (23). Sons of Mr Edward Standish Cox, of Wagstaff Point, near Woy Woy, who died from pneumonia within two days of each other, in Egypt last week. The deceased soldiers were members of the 4 th Battalion, First Infantry Brigade, First Australian Imperial Expeditionary Force.

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD. 23.12.1914. P.9. COX – December 13, 1914, Edward King Standish cox, eldest son of Edward Standish Cox, Wagstaff Point, died Egypt (Pnuemonia), aged 29 years.

GOSFORD TIMES. 26.2.1915. HONORING THEIR MEMORIES. £33 17s 9d has been collected to perpetuate the memory of the Cox Brothers, of Wagstaffe Point, members of the Expeditionary Force who recently died in Egypt. The total includes:- No 1 Box £3 1s 3d, No 2 Box £2 4s, Lists – W. Hadley £10, E.F. Cox £10.11s, W.M. Kenny £4 11s 6d, J.A. Beattie £1 1s, A Besle 7s, Rev. W.M. Herford was hon. Treasurer to the Fund, and Messrs Hadley and Kenny joint hon. Secretaries. When the new church (C. of E.) is erected at Wagstaffe, a memorial tablet will be placed therein. In the meantime the tablet will be erected in the new Mission Hall at Woy Woy.

GOSFORD TIMES 26.2.1915. Egypt. – Mr E. S. cox has received letters from the Chaplain and from the Officer in command of the Battalion of which his two deceased sons belonged. These letters expressing sincere regret and sympathy for the loss sustained by the parents and family, also speaks highly for the popularity and good conduct of the young soldiers, whom we are assured had every possible care and attention of the doctor and his nursing staff, and were also given a military funeral, the full company walking a considerable distance to pay their last respects to their comrades. The public have been asked to subscribe towards a fund to be utilized in a suitable manner in perpetuating the brothers’ memory.

GOSFORD TIMES. 28.5.1915. Private Anderson, whose death is reported at the Dardanelles, is a nephew of Mr E.S. Cox, who lost his only two sons in Egypt some few months ago.

GOSFORD TIMES 4.6.1915. MEMORIAL SERVICE. On Sunday afternoon next at 3 o’clock, Rev. W.M. Herford will perform the ceremony of unveiling a memorial tablet in the Woy Woy Mission Hall erected to the memory of the brothers Cox, Wagstaffe, who died in Egypt a few months ago. A free launch will leave Gosford Wharf at 2pm, Empire Bay at 2.30, Wagstaffe at 2.15, and round the Bay at 2.30.

GOSFORD TIMES 11.6.1915 Rev. W. M. herford writes:Please allow me an inch or two in your paper to say how much the Woy Woy people appreciate the action of the Gosford “volunteer” squad, under Sergeant Coulter, in coming to take part in the ceremony of unveiling the Memorial Tablet, placed in the Mission Hall, inscribed:-“ To the glory of God, and in affectionate remembrance of two brothers, Privates Edward R Standish Cox, and Miles Standish Cox, of the 1st Australian Expeditionary Force.” We are also indebted to those members of your Church of England choir who came to help us in hymns and psalms of thanksgiving. Sunday’s gathering was an indication of how the war is touching the hearts of our people.

GOSFORD TIMES 11.6.1915. WAGSTAFFE POINT & PRETTY BEACH. Memorial Service â&#x20AC;&#x201C; On Sunday afternoon last, Mr J Murphy kindly placed one of his ferry boats at the disposal of the residents between here and Woy Woy for those who desired to attend the memorial service held in the Church of England Mission Hall, Woy Woy, the service was conducted by Rev. W.M. Herford, when the tablet erected to the memory of the brothers Edward King and Myles Standish Cox, and who died in Egypt, was unveiled. There was present a very large attendance, all denominations being represented, while a squad of recruits in their khaki uniform from Gosford gave the ceremony a military and imposing effect. Mr Kirkness (Gosford) during the service gave a short inspiring address, which was followed by the Rev. Herford in the delivery of an appropriate and effective sermon. A full choir assisted, and the Dead March was played by the organist, Mr A.M. Booth. It was announced that half of the collections taken up would be devoted to a branch of the War Fund. The tablet bearing the inscription is a fine piece of workmanship. This and the excellently conducted service, and the large representative congregation, certainly impressed everyone present with the prevailing earnestness and sincerity arising from the appalling loss of life and manhood as the result of daily events.

GOSFORD TIMES. 18.6.1915. RETURN THANKS. THE Parents of the late E.S. Cox and M.S. Cox, of Wagstaffe Point, desire to express heartfelt thanks to the friends of their sons who contributed to the Tablet commemorating their memory.

GOSFORD TIMES 8.8.1918 WOY WOY (From our Correspondent) After a long and painful illness, Mr Standish Cox, an old and highly respected resident of Wagstaffe, Woy Woy, passed away at a private hospital at North Sydney on Sunday morning last. The deceased gentleman was a son of the noted sportsman of the sixties and seventies, Mr King Cox, owner of Yattendon, sire of Chester, winner of the Derby and Melbourne Cup in ’77. Mr Standish Cox was a bosom friend of our own Phil glenister since the early seventies, and, to use his (Mr Glenister’s) own words, “was as white a man as ever stood in shoe leather.” I have of times listened with the greatest interest to this pair of grand old timers exchanging reminiscences, how Phil had rode to victory his own hurdler, Gaffergray ( Mr Glenister was an amateur rider of considerable ability in those days), and how these old pals had hunted together in the early seventies. Mr Cox backed Chester to win £4,000 in the double of ’77, beating Mr Glenister (commissioner of the stable) for a stake of £40,000 on Savanaka (second) in the Cup. Amongst the first to offer their services in this great war and don khaki were E.S. and E.K. Cox, two as fine a lads as ever donned the uniform (sons of deceased), both of whom died of pneumonia, one on the voyage to Egypt and the other at Alexandria. The deceased gentlemen leaves a widow and daughter, for whom the deepest sympathy is universally expressed.

Abridged record/s courtesy of the National Archives of Australia (NAA) Series No: B2455 Item Barcode: 3436988