Private (signaller) Matthew Cockerill, 41430
- Batt - 7
- Unit - Leicestershire Regiment
- Section -
- Date of Birth - 1898
- Died - 21/09/1918
- Age - 20
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ContributeSource: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland. He was the son of Thomas Cockerill a grocer’s manager, born 1878 in Lincoln and his wife Mary E., born 1869 in Leicestershire. Matthew was born in 1898 in Loughborough, Leics., he had one sibling a sister Joyce M., born 1897 in Loughborough, Leics., also residing with the family was his paternal aunt, Louisa Cockerill a millinery assistant, born 1880 in Lincoln, in March 1901 the family home was at 18, Broad Street, Loughborough, Leics. The War Diary for today records. MANANCOURT. Rest. Baths. Re-formation of Companies.
- Conflict - World War I
- Burial Place - I B 118, Le Cateau Military Cemetery
- Other Memorials - Loughborough Baptist Church, Loughborough Carillon, War Memorial Bell Tower
- Unit - Leicestershire Regiment
- Cause of death - DIED
- Burial Commemoration - Le Cateau Mil. Cem., France
- Born - Loughborough, Leicestershire
- Enlisted - Loughborough, Leicestershire
- Place of Residence - 43 Park Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire, England
- Memorial - CARILLON TOWER MEM., LOUGHBOROUGH, LEICS
- Memorial - BAXTERGATE BAPTIST CHAPEL, LOUGHBOROUGH, LEICESTERSHIRE
