The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private M Cook

Private Maurice Percival COOK, G/2507, 7th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 1st October 1916.

Born Tunbridge Wells, Kent, son of Frederick George Cook, 12 Byron Avenue, Sutton, Surrey.

1911 Census - 12 Byron Avenue, Westmead Road, Sutton, Surrey - Frederic George Cook, head, age 40, married, tramway motorman, born Ivinghoe, Buckinghamshire; Eva Maria Cook, wife, age 33, married 10 years, 2 children, both still alive, born Newton Ferrers, Devon; Maurice Percival Cook, son, age 16, single, office clerk, London Association for Protection of Trade, born Brenchley, Kent; Leonard Frederick Cook, son, age 12, born Chiswick, Middlesex; Herbert Phillip Cook, son, age 9, born Chiswick, Middlesex; Raymond Cook, son, age 8, born Chiswick, Middlesex.

Enlisted Town Hall, Walham Green, London, age 20 years & 1 month, height 5ft 5 inches, weight 112lbs, fresh complexion, grey eyes, light brown hair, mole left side, mole right upper arm. Resided Sutton, Surrey. Formerly clerk.

Home, 8th September 1914 to 29th August 1915; BEF 30th August 1915 to 3rd October 1915; Home, 4th October 1915 to 18th April 1916; BEF 19th April 1916 to 1st October 1916.

8th September 1914, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 12th September 1914, posted 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 28th May 1915, appointed unpaid Lance Corporal; 29th September 1915, wounded, gun shot wound, head?; 4th October 1915, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 17th March 1916, posted 9th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 18th April 1916, posted BEF & 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 19th April 1916, embarked; 20th April 1916, disembarked; 5th May 1916, 18 Infantry Base Depot, proceeded to the Front to join 7th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 24th May 1916, Casualty Clearing Station, admitted pleurisy; 29th May 1916, Rouen, admitted 10 General Hospital; 6th June 1916, bronchitis, transferred to Convalescent Depot; 24th July 1916, discharged to Base Depot; 12th August 1916, joined Battalion.

Commemorated at Thiepval Memorial, Pier & Face 11C, Somme, France.

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