Current Information:

Age-23

1, Geneva Road, Brixton

Born-Marylebone

Adinkerke Military Cemetery, Belgium

Operation Hush was a British plan for amphibious landings on the Belgian coast in the summer and autumn of 1917 in conjunction with the Third Battle of Ypres that began on 31st July, that year. The landings would be supported by attacks from Nieuwpoort and the Yser bridgehead and a number of units were sent there with this purpose in mind. However the plan was cancelled in October, 1917 after the failure of the British to break out of the Ypres salient.

Edmund Cox died from wounds on 19th August, 1917 but as yet there is no information as to when and where he was wounded. The 1st Middlesex battalion was part of 98 Brigade, 33rd Division that had been on the Western Front since the start of the war and during the summer of 1917 took part in Operation Hush.