Aged 27 years

Died 17th May 1918

Commemorated at La Capelle-en-Thierache Communal Cemetery

Mrs. Cockayne, who resides with her father, Mr. A. Sudborough, boot manufacturer, Higham Ferrers, has received a letter from her husband, Pte. Charles Cockayne, Northants Regiment, stating that he was taken a prisoner of war on March 25th, and that he is also wounded and suffering from a fractured femur. The letter bears the German postmark.

Before joining the Colours in January, 1917, Pte. Cockayne was employed as a Consol operator by his father-in-law. He has been in France twelve months and had not previously been wounded.

Died in Captivity—News has just reached Mrs C Cockayne, of Higham Ferrers, through the medium of the Red Cross Prisoners of War Agency, that her husband, Pte C Cockayne, died whilst a prisoner of war in Germany on May 20th last. He was wounded and taken prisoner in the retreat of last March, and wrote twice from Germany, but could give little information. His death, which took place so long before it was known by his friends, was the more sad that all necessary arrangements for his leave were completed just before the German push, and then had to be cancelled. His brother Frank has been killed and another brother, Richard, is a prisoner of war. The late Pte C Cockayne was a son-in-law of Mr Sudborough, of Messrs Sudborough Ltd., boot manufacturers, Higham.