Crossbrook Cottages, London Road

60th Howitzer Bty, RFA

Mr and Mrs Hancock and Family desire to thank their many friends for kind sympathy expressed to them during their recent sad bereavement.

Crossbrook Cottage, London Road, Chippenham. June 6th 1916

Wilts Times 10 June 1916

April 18th from wounds received in action, Gnr Ladas Hancock, youngest son of Mr Hancock of London Road, Chippenham.
Aged 21

Wilts Times 16 June 1916

Casualty list published in the Wilts Times 10 June 1916, listed:

Died of wounds
Hancock 71111 Royal Field Artillery

Wilts Times 16 June 1916

In loving memory of our dear son Ladas Harcourt Hancock, Gunner RFA, original Army who served 16 months in France and 4 months in Mesopotamia, and died of wounds April 18th 1916.

Gone but not forgotten by his sorrowing Father, Mother Brothers and Sisters.
Crossbrook Cottage, London Road, Chippenham.

Wilts Times 21 April 1917

In loving memory of our son Gnr LH Hancock RFA, original Army, who died of wounds received in action in Mesopotamia April 18th 1916.

Gone but not forgotten by his sorrowing Father, Mother Brothers and Sisters.
Crossbrook Cottage, London Road, Chippenham.

In loving memory of Gnr L Hancock RFA who was killed in action April 18th 1916 aged 21, - one of the Old Contemptibles
From his brother Bob, Stoker HMAS Australia.

Wilts Times 20 April 1918