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Military service
Service number:
A/10736
Age:
22
Rank:
Sergeant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
Division:
2nd Bn.
Birth:
March 24, 1895
Leichester, England
Enlistment:
April 28, 1915
Ottawa, Ontario
Death:
May 4, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
II. F. 78.
Additional information
Son of William S. and Mary J. Cooke, of 18, River St., Smiths Falls, Ontario. He was a horse trainer and was single.
Digital gallery of Sergeant William Henry Cooke
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Photo de William Henry Cooke
From "Our Heroes in The Great World War", compiled by J. H. De Wolfe, Patriotic Publishing Co., Ottawa, Ontario, 1919. -
Photo de William Henry Cooke
Photo provided by community of Smiths Falls as part of the Lest We Forget Project. -
Biographie - page 1
Biography courtesy of the Lest We Forget remembrance initiative of the Smith Falls District Collegiate. -
Biographie - page 2
Biography courtesy of the Lest We Forget remembrance initiative of the Smith Falls District Collegiate. -
Photo de William Henry Cooke
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Registres de circonstances du décès
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CONNON TO CORBETT. Microform Sequence 22; Volume Number 31829_B016731. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 166. Page 415 of 818.
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Henry Cooke
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Henry Cooke
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Henry Cooke
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Henry Cooke
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Henry Cooke
Digital gallery of
Sergeant William Henry Cooke
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 220 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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