Private Harry Irving Hancock

[MaryA]

From the CWGC site
HANCOCK, H I

Rank:
Private
Service No:
23025
Date of Death:
29/12/1916
Regiment/Service:
The King's (Liverpool Regiment)

20th Bn.
Grave Reference
C. 1.
Cemetery
BERLES POSITION MILITARY CEMETERY

[Bertieone]

Harry Irving Hancock, 1897, West Derby 8b 628.

Son of John Robert & Hannah Hancock.

1901, RG13, P3489, F127, Page30



Name:
Harry Irving Hancock
Birth Place:
Liverpool
Residence:
Liverpool
Death Date:
29 Dec 1916
Death Location:
France & Flanders
Enlistment Location:
Liverpool
Rank:
Private
Regiment:
King's (Liverpool Regiment)
Battalion:
20th Battalion
Number:
33025
Type of Casualty:
Killed in action
Theatre of War:
Western European Theatre

[alcavtay]

This soldier's service papers survived.

medals etc were dispatched to his mother Mrs Hannah Hancock, 8 Cotswold St, Kensington (1919) a few streets away from St Cyprian's.

[Katie]

Liverpool Echo 11th December 1917

HANCOCK-In loving remembrance of my dear son's 21st birthday. Private H. I. Hancock, who was killed in action December 29 1916, aged 20.

Gone is the face we loved so dear,
Silent is the voice we long to hear.

From his sorrowing Mother, Douglas and Maud, 8, Cotswold Street.

Notices for Harry Irving also on the following dates

17th Jan 1917-Daily Post
11th Dec 1918-Liverpool Echo

[Katie]

Liverpool Echo Dec-29th-1917

HANCOCK-In loving memory of Private H. I. Hancock, who fell in action, December 29 1916, aged 20, and was buried in France.
The fairest flowers are first to fall
A son and brother true and brave;
The dearest fondest, best of all,
Has found a hero's grave.
From his sorrowing Mother, Douglas, Tommy and Manda-8, Cotswold Street