BORN HULL 25/12/1880. SON OF MARIA ISABELLA COOK (1848-1938) & LATE JAMES ALFRED COOK (1843-1905),OF 36 DAY STREET, HULL. HE MARRIED MAUD BUTLER IN JULY 1907. HIS WIFE MAUDE COOK (BUTLER) LIVED AT 3 VICTORIA AVENUE, PERRY STREET, HULL. (CWGC ADDRESS). SERVED AS FIRST ENGINEER, ON THE HULL, STEAM TRAWLER ‘AMBER’. HIS SHIP STRUCK A MINE. ALL HANDS LOST. HIS DEATH IS RECORDED IN THE CWGC RECORDS. HIS NAME IS REMEMBERED ON THE TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON. HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, ALFRED ERNEST COOK, 11/796, EYR, DIED OF WAR RELATED INJURIES, ON 18/12/1919, AGED 52.
Built as the AMBER for Kingston Steam Trawlers, Hull; Registion No H598; Yard No 189; Launch Date: 05/03/1898; Officially given up as lost on 26/01/1920, after leaving the port of Hull, in heavy gales, on New Year’s Day. All 10 crew missing.
CREW LOST ON AMBER (H398), missing, presumed to have struck mine, 10th January, 1920.
COOK, Christian (40), 3 Victoria-ave, Perry St, Hull. Chief Engineer
COUSINS, John (22), 15 Norfolk-ter, Norfolk St, Hull. Sparehand
HANNAH, Harold (40), 261 St. George’s Road, Hull. Skipper
HINDMARSH, William (54), 4 Worcester-ter, Gillett St, Hull. Bosun
LEEMAN, Benjamin (57), 1 Edwards-ter, Massey St, Hull. Cook
STEPHENS, Alfred (37), 36 St. Andrew’s St, Hull. Mate
TEMPLE, John (19), 3 Reform St, Hull. Trimmer
THOMPSON, John (24), 5 North-Terrace, West Dock-Ave, Hull. 2nd/Engineer
WILSON, Richard (25), 18 Wassand St, Hull. 3rd/Hand
WILTON, Arthur (33), 4 Andrew-place, Whitby. Deckhand
Cook, Christian Day
First name:
CHRISTIAN DAY
Regiment:
Rank:
1st Engineer
Date Died
10/01/1920
Place died:
TOWER HILL NAVAL MEMORIAL, LONDON, UK
Age:
40
3 VICTORIA AVENUE, PERRY STREET, HULL, EAST YORKSHIRE, UK
Place Buried
