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Military service
Age:
22
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada
Birth:
May 17, 1922
Manchester, England
Enlistment:
May 8, 1942
Death:
July 30, 1944
In the field
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Panel 21, Column 2.
Additional information
Son of John Herbert Cooke and Ethel Somerset Cooke, of Westmount, Province of Quebec, Canada. B.A. (McGill University).
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 278 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BAYEUX MEMORIAL Calvados, France
The Bayeux Memorial is located on the by-pass Rue de Sir Fabian Ware, in the south-western outskirts of the town of Bayeux, in Normandy, about 24 kilometres north-west of Caen. The memorial was erected in honour of the 1,803 men of the land forces who died in the fighting in Normandy and in the advance to the River Seine, and who have no known grave.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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