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Busby Cox

Private

Service No. 20516

Age 23

Died on 14 July 1916

Leicestershire Regiment

THIEPVAL MEMORIAL

Somme, France

Son of Mrs. Betsy Cox, of 2, Foston Rd., Countesthorpe, Leicester. His brother Joseph William Cox also fell.

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Henry Harrison

Busby, O valiant heart, who to your glory came ….. your memory hallowed in the land you loved.

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We will remember them.

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Busby, I am not aware of the precise circumstances of your death, nor what caused it, but, as a former soldier in the 1st and 7th Battalions...

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