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Edgar William Cox
Brigadier-General Edgar William Cox, DSO, FRGS (9 May 1882 – 26 August 1918) was a senior intelligence officer on the British General Staff throughout most of the First World War who 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, which occurred just days before the beginning of the Allied counterattack which would eventually defeat the German army.
==Early career==
Born to George and Louisa Cox of Islington, Middlesex in North London in May 1882, Edgar Cox was educated at Christ's Hospital in Newgate and in 1900 was commissioned as a junior officer into the Royal Engineers.〔(Commonwealth War Graves database page for Brigadier General Edgar William Cox ), Retrieved on 17 March 2007〕 After coming head of his class at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich and receiving several awards, both there and at the School of Military Engineering he was sent, following training and home service, to the British colony of Sierra Leone to help delineate the boundary with neighbouring Liberia.〔 This task occupied him until 1903, when he joined an Anglo-Portuguese boundary commission in Angola.〔 In 1906 he left this post to conduct a three-year survey of the East African Protectorate (later to become Kenya). Back in Britain and serving at Aldershot barracks, he was promoted to captain, married the South African Nora and became a governor of his former school, which had by this time moved to Horsham.〔 He also became a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and was one of their delegates at the Paris International Map Conference in 1913.〔
Between 1912 and 1914, Cox demonstrated a talent for staff work and was assigned to the War Office as a staff officer (3rd class), gaining valuable experience in military intelligence and learning fluent French and German. His work was good enough that in August 1914 he was attached to the staff of Sir John French in charge of the British Expeditionary Force sent to France to counter the German invasion at the start of World War I.〔〔
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