Drummer Albert Edward Cockle, 8041, 1st Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment, was killed in action at Hill 60 in Flanders on April 19th, 1915. He was aged 29.

Drummer Cockle, son of Walter and Emma Cockle, had served in the Bedfords for nearly 11 years, mostly in India and South Africa. He had returned from South Africa the previous September.

Ahead of War Office notification, Drummer Cockle's sister, Mrs S. J. Barton, of 31 Cambridge Street, Luton, had heard of his death in a letter from one of his chums, Pte Allen, of Chase Street, Luton, who was wounded on the same day.