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Military service
Service number:
168676
Age:
23
Rank:
Flying Officer
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Division:
625 Sqdn.
Birth:
January 1, 1921
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
January 28, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Grave 209.
Additional information
Son of William Wood and Dorothy May Cook of Vancouver, British Columbia. The Province of British Columbia honoured Flying Officer Cook by naming Cook Point for him. It is located at the North East side of Nelson Island, Jervis Inlet, New Westminster
Land District. Although his home is recorded as being Toronto, there is a Memorial Window dedicated to him in St.Luke's Anglican Church, Victoria, British Columbia.
Additional citations
Distinguished Flying Medal - awarded as per London Gazette 7 January 1944.
Digital gallery of Flying Officer Roy James Cook
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Magazine Article (Page 6)
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Photo of Roy Cook
F/O R.J.COOK DFM -
Photo 2 of Roy Cook
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Newspaper Clipping
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Magazine Article
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Magazine Article (Page 2)
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Magazine Article (Page 3)
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Magazine Article (Page 4)
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Magazine Article (Page 5)
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Magazine Article (Page 7)
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Magazine Article (Page 8)
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Saint Luke Anglican church
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Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer Roy James Cook is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Flying Officer Roy James Cook is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From a World War 2 issue of the Vancouver Province c.1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Roy James Cook
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Roy James Cook
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Roy James Cook
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Roy James Cook
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Roy James Cook
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Roy James Cook
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Roy James Cook
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Roy James Cook
Digital gallery of
Flying Officer Roy James Cook
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 278 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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MARISSEL FRENCH NATIONAL CEMETERY Pas de Calais, France
Marissel is a commune on the east side of Beauvais. Beauvais is a Cathedral City in the Department of the Oise.
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