Next of Kin plaque : Private Clement Cox, 3rd Australian Light Trench Mortar Battery, AIF

Bronze next of kin plaque, showing on the obverse, Britannia holding a laurel wreath, the British lion, dolphins, a spray of oak leaves and the words 'HE DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOUR' around the edge. Beneath the main figures, the British lion defeats the German eagle. The initials 'ECP', for the designer Edward Carter Preston appear above the lion's right forepaw. A raised rectangle above the lion's head bears the name of the 'CLEMENT COX'.

Born in Burra, South Australia, in 1881, Clement Cox was employed as a hairdresser (barber) when he enlisted in the AIF on 20 August 1915. After initial training he was assigned as a private, service number 3473, to the 8th Reinforcements to the 27th Battalion. He sailed for Egypt aboard HMAT A30 Borda on 12 January 1916.

In May 1916 cox was briefly transferred to the 10th Battalion, before being posted to the 3rd Light Trench Mortar Battery, with whom he served on the Western Front. Cox was killed on 6 May 1917 during the Second Battle of Bullecourt. He is buried in the Queant Road Cemetery at Buissy in France.

This commemorative plaque was sent to his widow, Mabel Cox, in September 1922. The Cox's only child, Lancelot Clement Cox, served in the Second World War.