Cooke DSM, Harold

BORN HULL 07/04/1890. SON OF FREDERICK & CHARLOTTE COOKE.

HE MARRIED ETHEL BEDFORTH, IN 1912. THEY  LIVED AT 7, FERENS VILLAS, ROSMEAD STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS) & 44, COGAN STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE WAS A HULL POLICE MAN.

HE SERVED AS CHIEF ENGINEER, IN THE ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE, ON MINESWEEPERS, HMS VICTORY AND THE TRAWLER “JOHN FENTON”.

AWARDED THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL (DSM) FOR MINE SWEEPING OPERATIONS. DIED OF DOUBLE PNEUMONIA, ON 21/10/1918, AGED 28.

BURIED HULL WESTERN CEMETERY.

HIS WIDOW, ETHEL MOVED TO 44, COGAN STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION RECORDS).

He is commemorated on the Hull City Police Force Memorial Plaque, Priory Road Police station, Hull, unveiled on 21st January 1923.


First name:
HAROLD
Military Number:
1776 S
Rank:
Chief Engineer
Date Died
21/10/1918
Place died:
Hull Western Cemetery, East Yorkshire, UK
Age:
28
7, FERENS VILLAS, ROSMEAD STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK