Ivor fought in World War 1 as a junior officer at Gallipoli where he was wounded, losing three fingers, and so invalided home. After recovery he was posted to Salonika in 1918 and then India in 1919.

In 1939 he was serving in the Territorial Army and was called up to help staff a POW camp at Favreuil, near Boulogne. In February 1940 Ivor returned home on leave but did not return to the front due to his being seriously ill with kidney disease, ascribed to the after-effects of malaria, from which he had suffered whilst serving in Salonika in 1918. It was this disease which was to lead to his death at the age of 44 on Friday 19^th July 1940.

Husband of Dorothy Glanville Cochrane [née Piggott] of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset: son of Dr Charles Edward Cochrane & Mrs Mary Margaret Cochrane. Dorothy’s brother Percy Piggott, himself an OW, was killed in France on 28^th May 1918.

A downloadable copy of Ivor's story is available here.

See also the Commonwealth War Graves Commission permanent digital memorial, ‘Evermore: Stories of the fallen’ relating to:- Captain Ivor Edward Morgan COCHRANE