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Rank : Lance Corporal

Army Number : 25935

Unit : 7th Bn

Biography :

Home address given as Glenfield, Leicestershire. Enlisted at Leicester. Served with the 'C' Company 7th Bn Leicestershire Regiment in World War One. Died of wounds 5.11.1917, age 29. He is buried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Poperinge, Belgium.

Further Info: Married Mary Eleanor Robinson in 1916 at Leicester. Prior to joining the army he was a shoe clicker. The family lived in Anstey, Leicestershire.

CWGC:

Rank: Private
Service No: 25935
Date of Death: 05/11/1917
Age: 29
Regiment/Service:
Leicestershire Regiment "C" Coy. 7th Bn.
Grave Reference: XXI. GG. 5.
Cemetery:LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY

Additional Information: Son of G. William and Mary Maud Hancock; husband of M. E. Potter (formerly Hancock), of 161, Murray Rd., Rugby.

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Newspaper report:

'Tragedy of Soldier's last Letter:

It was tragically ironic that probably the last letter Lance Corporal Hooley Hancock (29) of Anstey received from home when fighting in Passchendaele in 1917 was from his nephew George who ended by joking - "remember to keep dodging the bullets."
For shortly afterwards, L/c Hancock was fatally wounded in the thick of the fighting heading for Passchendaele Ridge and died a week later.
Many years later, the letter - returned with other belongings to his next of kin - together with a photograph of L/c Hancock - has been donated by his family to the Leicestershire Great War History Group who had undertaken some research for them.....'

Date of Birth : 1888

Place of Birth : & Northampton & Northamptonshire

Date of Death : 5.11.1917

Place of Death : & & Belgium

Civil Occupation : Shoe clicker

Period of Service : 1910s

Conflicts : WW1

Places Served : & & Belgium