Name
Ernest Cooke
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
22/01/1918
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Bombardier
687260
Royal Field Artillery
276th Bde
'C' Bty
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BOULOGNE EASTERN CEMETERY
VIII. I. 153
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Albans Citizens Memorial, Town Hall (old) Memorial, St Albans
Pre War
Son of Joseph and Emily Cooke, of 22, Catherine St., St. Albans, Hertfordshire (address at time of his death).
Before the war he was a member of the Abbey Church Choir.
The Soldiers Died In The Great War database records that he was born in St Albans, Herts. and he enlisted in Hertford.
Wartime Service
He died in hospital.
Additional Information
Apprears as Cook in the Soldiers Died In The Great War database, but Cooke in all other records found.
Ernest and his brother Bertram are also commemorated on the family headstone in St. Albans (Hatfield Road) Cemetery. Their inscription reads:
ALSO OF ERNEST COOKE. YOUNGEST SON OF THE ABOVE (JAMES JOSEPH COOKE) WHO GAVE HIS LIFE FOR HIS COUNTRY JANUARY 22ND 1918. AGED 20 YEARS
BURIED AND BOULOGNE CEMETERY
UNTIL THE DAY BREAKS
AND OF GUNNER BERTRAM COOKE TRENCH MORTAR BATTERY(?)
DIED OF WOUNDS APRIL 15TH AGED 23 YEARS BURIED AT GEZAINCOURT
GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS
Acknowledgments
Gareth Hughes
