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Surname: COCKSHOTT
Forename(s): Thomas Wilman
Place of Birth: Draughton, Yorkshire
Service No: 88949
Rank: Corporal
Regiment / Corps / Service: Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Battalion / Unit: 6th Battalion
Division: 6th Division
Age: 28
Date of Death: 1918-09-18
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: I. C. 9.
CWGC Cemetery: CHAPELLE BRITISH CEMETERY, HOLNON
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: DRAUGHTON, YORKSHIRE
Local War Memorial: SKIPTON, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
Thomas Wilman Cockshott was the son of John and Alice Cockshott, née Wilman. Alice was born at Feizor, Yorkshire, daughter of Thomas (died 1870) and Mary Wilman, née Hodgson.
1891 Draughton, Yorkshire Census: Draughton Hall - Thomas W. Cockshott, aged 1 year, born Draughton. [Thomas and his mother Alice were living with her mother, Mary and stepfather Christopher Wood. Mary, had married Christopher in 1874.]
1901 Draughton, Yorkshire Census: Draughton Hall - Thomas Cockshott, aged 11 years, born Skipton, Yorkshire. [Thomas and his mother Alice were living with her mother, Mary and stepfather Christopher Wood.]
1911 Leeds, Yorkshire Census: 4, Ravenscar Mount, Roundhay - Tom Cockshott, aged 21 years, born Draughton, Yorkshire. Butcher's Assistant. [Thomas was boarding with Peter and Sophia Hawkridge.]
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Cpl Thomas Cockshott, 88949, M.G.C.
British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Cpl Thomas Cockshott, 88949, M.G.C. Killed in Action or Died of Wounds on or Since 18.9.18.
Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Cpl Thomas Cockshott, 88949, 6 Bn M.G.C. Date and Place of Death: 18.9.18. France. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Mother and Sole Legatee - Alice. £34 13s. 7d.
UK, WW1 Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923: card(s) exist for Thomas. Name(s) on card(s): Dependant: Mrs Alice Cockshott. Relationship: Mother. Address: South View, Draughton, Skipton, Yorks.
Early in 1918 Machine Gun Battalions were formed. This was done by bringing 4 Machine Gun Companies together to form a battalion. The battalion then took the number of their Division.
Data Source: Craven’s Part in the Great War - original CPGW book entry
View Entry in CPGW BookEntry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record:
COCKSHOTT, L-Cpl. T., M.G.C., aged 28, son of Mrs. Cockshott, 48, Otley Street, Skipton, killed Sept. 18, 1918.
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Corporal Thomas Wilman COCKSHOTT
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Machine Gun Corps (Infantry)
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 6th Division
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St John the Evangelist Churchyard, Langcliffe
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St John the Evangelist Churchyard, Langcliffe
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22 November 1918
Corporal Tom Cockshott, Skipton
The latest list of casualties also includes the name of Corporal Tom Cockshott, Machine Gun Corps, son of Mrs. Cockshott, of 49 Otley Street, Skipton, and a grandson of Mr. Christopher Wood, Otley Street, Skipton. Corporal Cockshott was wounded on September 18th last; later he was posted wounded and missing on that date, and his fate was not known definitely to his mother until a letter, date Nov. 11th, was received from Capt. and Adjutant Briggs, commanding a battalion of the Machine Gun Corps, stating that Corpl. Cockshott had been killed in action (apparently on September 18th), and buried by the Rev. J. A. Bell, chaplain of the West Yorkshire Regiment, on or about September 19th. Captain Briggs added that apparently deceased either succumbed to his wounds or was fatally hit while on the way to the dressing station.
Twenty-eight years of age, Corporal Cockshott was a butcher on his own account at Menston prior to enlisting in October, 1915, as a butcher in the Army Service Corps. Subsequently he transferred to the Machine Gun Corps and had seen a good deal of fighting. We extend sympathy to the bereaved family.
We will give a photograph of the deceased soldier next week.
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22 November 1918
Skipton Corporal Killed
Mrs. Cockshott, of 48, Otley Street, Skipton, who had previously received word that her son, Corpl. Tom Cockshott, of the Machine Gun Corps, had been wounded, and later that he was wounded and missing, has now been informed that he was killed on or about Sept. 18th. Corpl. Cockshott, who was 28 years of age, enlisted in October, 1915, as a butcher in the Army Service Corps, but was later transferred to the Machine Gun Corps. He was formerly in business as a butcher on his own account at Menston.
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