Cook, Arthur Barton

BORN HULL 1884. ENLISTED HULL. LIVED IN HULL. SON OF ARTHUR WILLIAM & MARY COOK, OF 4 HESSLE VIEW, BARTON UPON HUMBER, , NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE ARTHUR BARTON COOK 11/742. Born in Hull in 1884, Arthur was one of three sons to Arthur and Mary Cook of 4 Hessle View, Barton-on-Humber. Arthur had married in 1910 and he and his wife Annette lived at 29 Gordon’s Avenue, Cannon Street, Hull. A Slate Enameller before the war, he enlisted on 8th September 1914 at City Hall in Hull joining the 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment; ‘The Tradesmen’; Hull Pals. His life was already touched by tragedy as Annette Cook had passed away leaving him a widower at 30. Serving in Egypt over Christmas 1915, The Pals arrived on the Western Front in March 1916. Arthur was wounded in the abdomen on 1st May 1916 and evacuated to 20th Casualty Clearing Station, where he died of wounds three days later. Abdominal wounds were among the worst, and what poor Arthur suffered for those 72 hours I don’t want to contemplate. He is buried at Gezaincourt Cemetery Extension. His grave inscription, reads, “SLEEP WELL, BELOVED, UNTIL THE DAY BREAKS.”