Earned Military Medal June 1916.
Family Search: Private Ethelbert Hancock was born on 21 June 1890, in Shropshire, England, United Kingdom as the son of George Hancock and Prudence Hughes. He married June Kallan on 3 December 1918, in London, Ontario, Canada. He immigrated to Quebec City, Quebec, Canada in 1913 and lived in Chesley, Bruce, Ontario, Canada in 1922. He registered for military service in 1914. In 1914, at the age of 24, his occupation is listed as bookeeper in Chesley, Bruce, Ontario, Canada. He died on 25 March 1957, in Brentwood, Essex, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 66, and was buried in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom.
“For gallantry and self sacrifice during a bombardment of our trenches on the 2nd, March, 1916. When a machine gun emplacement had been blown in and several men wounded he went to their assistance and succeeded in rescuing them and removing them to a place of safety.”
Windsor, Ontario, Canada · Monday, June 05, 1916.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 
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