Henry Walter Cox
Serial No:
Serial No. N85354
Suburb:
Thirlmere
Henry Walter Cox - Information
Henry was born in Thirlmere on Christmas Day in 1895. When the war began, Henry was living in Darlinghurst working as a miner. He joined up at the East Sydney Recruiting Depot in Darlinghurst on the 28th of December 1917, aged 22. He commenced his training at the Royal Australian Showground in Sydney. However, he was discharged for being medically unfit on the 29th of December. He had been suffering recurrences of gonorrhoea for the past 4 years and therefore would continue to be a problem if he served.