C.R. Cock, Esq. 
(1838-1879)
24 March 1862

Volume 6, page 118, sitting number 7342. 

Born in or about 1838, Charles Richard Cock was the son of James and Georgina Mary Cock. He was baptised at Benares in India on 7 December 1838. 

On 20 April 1865 at Rondebosch, near Cape Town in South Africa, ‘Charles Richard Cock, Esq., H.M.’s Bengal Army, son of the late Major-General Cock, H.E.I.C.S. [married] Caroline, widow of the late Augustus Cripps, Bengal Staff Corps’ (Waterford Mail, 16 August 1865). 

On 6 April 1874 at Umballa in Bengal, he married Anna Pollock, daughter of Sir Jonathan Frederick Pollock, 1st Bt. 

‘MAJOR CHARLES RICHARD COCK, Bengal Staff Corps, has been appointed to succeed Major A.D. Butler, Bengal Staff Corps, as a brigade-major on the establishment on the Bengal Army. Major Cock joined the Indian Army as an ensign in September, 1856, and has been for some time past station staff officer at Jhelum’ (Naval & Military Gazette, 13 June 1877). 

Charles Richard Cock died in Nagaland, N.E. India, on 23 November 1879 as a result of wounds received the previous day during the Nagas’ last stand against the British. 

‘COCK — On the 23rd November, 1879, from wounds received the day before at the taking of Konoma [Khonoma], Naga Hills, aged 41 years, Major Charles Richard Cock, D.A.A.G. [Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General], Eastern Frontier District, Assam, India, youngest son of the late Major-General Cock, Bengal Army, of Hopton Hall, Suffolk’ (Thetford & Watton Times, 4 December 1880). 

[He has a plaque in the Royal Memorial Chapel at Sandhurst and to this day there is a plinth monument to him at the highest point in the village of Khonoma, erected in 1906 or 1907 on the orders of Sir William Reid, then the Deputy-Commissioner in Kohima.]