The Cox Family In Grimethorpe

A Memory of Grimethorpe.

My Grandfather, Dennis Cox and his wife Gertrude moved to Grimethorpe between the years 1905 and 1911 the first address I have for them is New Buildings Grimethorpe in the year 1911. They had eleven children and all of the males (8) worked in the mine at Grimethorpe, the youngest of the boys was called Ernest and he fought and died in the WW2, he served in the 1/7th Battalion Duke of Wellintons regimentand was killed on the 18th 0f June 1944 in Nothern France he is buried in Bayeux Cemetary, my Father Edward Arthur Cox also served in the second world war in the Royal Army Medical Corps, his brother Augustine (known as Gussie) was quite a well Known figure in Grimethorpe as a boxer. I don't remeber my Grandfather all that well as we lived in Leeds and I was the youngest son and was not born until 1943. I vaguely remember visiting Grimethorpe as a child but have been back many times recently, and from what I remember Grimethorpe has changed a great deal since the closing of the mines there.