About W. D. Cocker
Lived 1882 – 1970 (aged 87–88). W. D. Cocker was a poet.
William Dixon Cocker (13 October 1882 – 1970) was a Scottish poet who wrote in both Scots and English.
Life W. D. Cocker was born in Rutherglen to a family of Glasgow merchants, although his family had connections to the rural Drymen area where he learned Scots.
In the First World War, he served with the Highland Light Infantry, and was taken prisoner in 1917. His war poetry is limited in scope, but includes the poems "Up the Line to Poelkapelle", "The Sniper" and a five-part sonnet cycle entitled "Sonnets in Captivity".
After the war Cocker entered the accounts department of the Daily Record, and was the paper's drama critic until his retirement in 1956.
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Who was W. D. Cocker?
British writer
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W. D. Cocker was born in 1882.
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W. D. Cocker died in 1970.
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W. D. Cocker was a poet.
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