Regimental number | 1206 |
Place of birth | Stewart's Point, New South Wales |
Religion | Methodist |
Occupation | Labourer |
Address | Macksville, Nambucca River, New South Wales |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 19 |
Next of kin | Father, P Cook, Macksville, Nambucca River, New South Wales |
Enlistment date | |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | Light Trench Mortar Battery, Reinforcement 2 |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 13/130/2 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A40 Ceramic on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 13th Battalion |
Other details from Roll of Honour Circular | Enlisted 23 May 1916 - LTM Bty 2nd Reinforcements; taken on strength 13th Bn, 7 May 1917. |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Place of death or wounding | Messines, Belgium |
Age at death | 20 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 17), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 68 |
Family/military connections | Brothers: 3732 Pte Silas Henry COOK, 1st Machine Gun Bn, returned to Australia, 12 June 1919; 3733 Pte George Magmus COOK, 1st Bn, returned to Australia, 12 May 1919. |
Other details |
War service: Western Front Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal |