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Citation(s);
Military service
Service number:
J/6276
Age:
22
Rank:
Squadron Leader
Force:
Air Force
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Canadian Air Force
Division:
431 Sqdn.
Death:
December 4, 1943
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
4. Z. 23.
Additional information
Son of William Hamilton Cook and Marguereta Agnes Cook, of Toronto, Ontario.
Squadron Leader Robert Geoffrey Cook has been honoured by having Mount Cook named after him. The location of Mount Cook is in Yukon (105F15- 61° 55’ 49”- 132° 54’ 40”)
Digital gallery of Squadron Leader Robert Geoffrey Cook
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Cemetery
Entrance sign to the Berlin 1939 - 1945 War Cemetery - May 2015 Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Berlin 1939 - 1945 War Cemetery - May 2015 Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Cemetery
Berlin 1939 - 1945 War Cemetery - May 2015 Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Grave Marker
Grave marker - Berlin 1939 - 1945 War Cemetery - May 2015 Photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Grave Marker
Grave Marker -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
TO HONOUR THE MEN OF E. & S. CURRIE LTD. WHO SERVED THEIR COUNTRY, AND IN MEMORY OF THE FOLLOWING WHO IN SO DOING GAVE THEIR LIVES 1939 - 1945 ROBERT GEOFFREY COOK, R.C.A.C. DAVID EDWIN GILLES, R.C.A.C. ROBERT HENRY, R.C.N. KENNETH GRAHAM LAVERY, R.C.A.F. GORDON POSTE, 48TH H. OF C. THEY SHALL GROW NOT OLD. AS WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD: AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM NOT THE YEARS CONDEMN. AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM. LAWRENCE BINYON Memorial plaque #20060086-001 Canadian War Museum -
Photo of ROBERT GEOFFREY COOK
In memory of the students of R H King Academy (formally Scarborough Collegiate Institute) who went to war and did not come home. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. -
R H King Academy
In memory of the students of R H King Academy (formally Scarborough Collegiate Institute) who went to war and did not come home. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. -
R H King Academy
In memory of the students of R H King Academy (formally Scarborough Collegiate Institute) who went to war and did not come home. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. -
R H King Academy
In memory of the students of R H King Academy (formally Scarborough Collegiate Institute) who went to war and did not come home. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me. -
Memorial
Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Squadron Leader Robert Geoffrey Cook is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Memorial
Squadron Leader Robert Geoffrey Cook is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star January 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Robert Geoffrey Cook
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Robert Geoffrey Cook
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Robert Geoffrey Cook
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Robert Geoffrey Cook
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Robert Geoffrey Cook
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Robert Geoffrey Cook
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Robert Geoffrey Cook
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Robert Geoffrey Cook
Digital gallery of
Squadron Leader Robert Geoffrey Cook
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 148 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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