No. 8766, Private Walter George COOKE
Aged 18
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Walter George Cooke was born on 20th June 1896 in Barrow (Thingoe Q3-1896 4A:782), baptised in All; Saints, Barrow on 26th July 1896, son of Walter and Jane Amelia COOKE (née MILLER).
1901 census...Aged 4, he was at Upper Green, Higham, with his father Walter [34] farm labourer; his mother Amelia [33]; brother Frederick J. [11] and sisters Ellen E. [9] and Emily E [7]. The whole family were born in Barrow. 1911 census...Aged 15, (now recorded as George) he was a farm labourer, living at 69 Upper Green, Higham, with his parents (mother now recorded as Jane); sisters Ellen and Emily and brother William [8] and Victor [1] both born in Higham. |
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He enlisted in Bury St Edmunds. Without his Army records there would be no way of saying where or when he was wounded, but thanks to the International Red Cross putting more records on line, we now know he was wounded in the right thigh and died as a prisoner of war of the Germans, captured on 26th August 1914. Although much is in German or French and abbreviated, the appended glossary is useful and more can now be learned than before. The main link is here.http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/
photo: Rodney Gibson click here to go to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website for full cemetery/memorial details |
