Edgar William Cox
Senior intelligence officer on the British General Staff during WW1 · Scientists · Lived 1882 to 1918 · aged 36
Brigadier-General Edgar William Cox was a senior intelligence officer on the British General Staff throughout most of the First World War.
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He drowned in suspicious circumstances whilst swimming in August 1918 shortly after the German successes in the Spring Offensive, which drove the allied armies back a large distance. Although officially an accident, suspicions of suicide surrounded his death.
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Scientists
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Scientist
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1882 to 1918 · aged 36
