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Town of Claremont Museum > Records

COX, ROBERT J. CR.

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1915 - 1919

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1 B/W bust photographic print of R.J. Cox c1915-1919. Image shows a young man with a receding hairline and light coloured hair, cleanly shaven with a timmed moustache. He is wearing a pale colourded jacket with matching high buttoned waistcoat, stiff stand up collar and a dark coloured tie. Printed beneath [COX 1915-19].

Historical information

Robert Jame Cox born in Gosport, Hampshire in 1880. He arrived in Albany in 1911. Robert was a civil servant and a former Town of Claremont Councillor from 1919-1920.

Married Elsie Helene Properjohn (born in Somerset, England in 1881 and arrived in WA in 1913), in Claremont in 1913. Children: Russell (b.1914) and Sylvia (b.1915).

Lived on Victoria Parade (c1912), Thompson Road (c1919), Saladin Street (c1920), 28 Reserve Street (c1921) and 6 Grange Street (c1925) in Claremont and then Ventnor Street, West Perth.

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cwa-org-28--14-49-

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Sunday, 8 February, 2026

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