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A.I.F. VETERAN
DEATH IN SYDNEY.
SYDNEY. Nov. 20.—Major-General
Charles Frederick (Fighting Charlie) Cox
died to-day, aged 81. General Cox led a
detachment of Lancers which went to
England for Queen Victoria's Jubilee. In
the Boer War he served with Major, later
Field-Marshal Allenby. He was awarded
the C.B. In 1914 he was given command
of the 8th Australian Light Horse Regi-
ment, and was promoted to Brigadier-
General at Gallipoli. Until the end of
the war he was in command of the First
Light Horse Brigade. He was awarded
the C.M.G. and D.S.O.
General Cox entered the Senate in
1919. In Parliament and in other spheres
he closely associated himself with the
interests of returned soldiers.
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