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Military service
Service number:
790122
Age:
33
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
47th Bn.
Birth:
December 29, 1883
Enlistment:
New Westminister, British Columbia
Death:
October 26, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
V. C. 9.
Additional information
Son of John and Margaret Cook, of Sydney, New South Wales; husband of Kate Cook, of Edmonds, Burnaby, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Private John Ernest Cook
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Photo of John Cook
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Cemetery
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Grave marker
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Circumstances of Death Registers
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 273 of 818. Private Cook was initially buried near Otto Farm Cemetery. Subsequently, his body was exhumed and re-interred in Dochy Farm New British Cemetery, which was created after the Armistice to serve as a final resting place for the remains of soldiers previously buried in isolated graves in the battlefields of Boesinghe, St. Julien, Frezenberg and Passchendaele.
Digital gallery of
Private John Ernest Cook
Digital gallery of
Private John Ernest Cook
Digital gallery of
Private John Ernest Cook
Digital gallery of
Private John Ernest Cook
Digital gallery of
Private John Ernest Cook
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 219 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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