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Cozens, Leslie, brother of Frederick Cyril Cozens (q.v.); b. Sept. 20, 1893; adm. April 30, 1908 (A); left July 1911; entered his father's business of tanner and currier at Walsall; 2nd Lieut. 5th Batt. South Staffs Regt. May 2, 1912; Lieut. March 1, 1914; Capt. May 19, 1915; went out to the western front March 3, 1915; d. Oct. 14, 1915, from wounds received in action at the Hohenzollern Redoubt the previous day; unm.

Coventry, Wyndham John, younger son of Frank Coventry, of Twickenham, by Louisa Emily, daughter of Sir John Joseph Grinlinton, of Middle Wallop, Hants; b. Dec. 25, 1886; adm. April 23, 1902 (A); left July 1904; R. M.C. Sandhurst 1906; 2nd Lieut. (unattached) Jan. 19, 1907, 44th Merwara Infantry (Indian Army) March 12, 1908; Squadron Officer 7th Hariana Lancers July 6, 1908; Lieut. Indian Army April 19, 1909; Capt. Sept. 1, 1915; left India with drafts for the 20th Deccan Horse Dec. 7, 1914, and served on the western front as observer in the Royal Flying Corps until. June 1915; was recalled to his regiment in India, and joined the expeditionary force to Mesopotamia July 1915; took part in the battles of Kut and Ctesiphon; mentioned in despatches; d. Jan. 1, 1916, of wounds received in action at Ali Gharh, Mesopotamia, the previous day; unm.

Cooke, Guy Proudfoot, only son of David Frederick Cooke, of Teddington, Middlesex, solicitor, by Alice, widow of Arthur Proudfoot; b. Feb. 27, 1894; adm. from Uppingham School April 29, 1909 (A); left Dec. 1910; entered his father's office in Jan. 1911 and was articled to him in March 1913; joined the R. N. V. R. March 1913, and as a leading seaman took part in the operations at Antwerp in Oct. 1914; Sub-Lieut. R. N. V. R. (Nelson Batt.) Dec. 23, 1914; went out with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force March 2, 1915; killed in action at Gaba Tepe, Gallipoli Peninsula, May 2nd, 1915; unm.

Codd, Stephen Arthur Herbert, only son of Arthur William Codd, of West Hampstead, by Florence, daughter of William Whitley, of Woodstock, co. Oxon.; b. Oct. 24, 1891; adm. as K.S. (non-resident) Sept. 28, 1905 (H); left July 1910; entered the office of the High Commissioner for South Africa, but in 1913 went to King's Coll. London with the intention of taking holy orders; gained the Wordsworth Latin Prize in the Intermediate B. D. Exam. in 1914; enlisted in the Univs. and Pub. Schools Batt. of the Royal Fusiliers Sept. 3, 1914; 2nd Lieut. 11th (Service) Batt. Gloucestershire Regt. Dec. 18, 1914; was attached to the 7th Batt. and went out to Gallipoli Sept. 24, 1915, but after the great blizzard there in Nov. was invalided home with frostbite; went out to the western front after his recovery Aug. 24, 1916; killed in action at High Wood on the Somme Sept. 9, 1916; unm.

Charlton, Arthur Nesbit, younger son of Henry Edward Charlton, of Streatham, Surrey, Senior Assistant Comptroller of the Post Office Savings Bank, by Rachel Edmondson, daughter of Henry Pariss, of Battersea; b. Sept. 10, 1895; adm. Sept. 23, 1909 (H); K.S. 1910; elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1914; 2nd Lieut. 7th (Service) Batt. Norfolk Regt. Sept. 9, 1914; Lieut. July 1, 1915; Adjutant Oct. 6, 1915; Capt. Nov. 29, 1916; went out to the western front in May 1915; was mentioned in despatches Jan. 4, 1917; M.C. June 30, 1917; killed in action at Cambrai Nov. 30, 1917; unm.