Family Search: When Lieutenant Albert Edward Cock was born on 14 April 1886, in Maidstone, Tecumseh, Essex, Ontario, Canada, his father, Joseph French Cock, was 42 and his mother, Frances Colliss, was 42. He married Winnifrid Kendall on 16 August 1922, in London Township, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada. He lived in Essex, Ontario, Canada for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 30, his occupation is listed as bank clerk in Windsor, Sandwich Township, Essex, Ontario, Canada. He died on 21 October 1965, in Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 79, and was buried in Victoria Memorial Gardens, Windsor, Essex, Ontario, Canada.
May have died on October 21, 1965.
Black and white photograph showing uniformed First World War soldier Ed Cock, posing in the doorway of a railway car, presumably at the time of his deployment for overseas service, possibly as part of the 91st [99th Battalion] Battalion, St. Thomas deployment on June 25, 1916. Cock was Elda Mae Horton Patterson’s uncle. The women shown posing with Cock are identified as Annie Cock, left, Cock‘s sister; and Cock‘s wife Winnie Kendall Cock, right. The only soldier identified in Library and Archives Canada’s database of Canadian Expeditionary Force attestation papers is Lieutenant Albert Edward Cock, 99th Battalion, born April 14, 1886: http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/first-world-war-1914-1918-cef/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=107594. Source: Elgin County Archives
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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