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Military service
Service number:
159721
Age:
16
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regt.)
Birth:
September 23, 1900
Cookstown, Ontario
Enlistment:
March 1, 1916
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
October 1, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Private William Henry Cook
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Newspaper Clipping
From the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Pte. Cook indicated that he was a bicycle maker by trade. His attestation stated that he was born in 1900. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of WILLIAM HENRY COOK
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private William Henry Cook
Digital gallery of
Private William Henry Cook
Digital gallery of
Private William Henry Cook
Digital gallery of
Private William Henry Cook
Digital gallery of
Private William Henry Cook
Digital gallery of
Private William Henry Cook
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 70 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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