Cook, William Henry

BORN HULL 1893. SCULCOATES. SON OF JOHN AND EMMA COOK. HIS MOTHER MARRIED HENRY SUTTON DUNKIN, AND THEY LIVED AT THIS CWGC ADDRESS. HE WAS A HULL & BARNSLEY RAILWAY PORTER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 20/04/1915. SERVED AS A CORPORAL, IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 27/09/1918, AGED 25. BURIED AT ECOUST-ST. MEIN BRITISH CEMETERY, FRANCE. UNMARRIED HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS MOTHER EMMA DUNKIN, AND HIS THREE MARRIED SISTERS, MRS HANNAH M. BOOTH, MRS EMILY NEEDHAM, AND MRS EDITH E COOK. HIS OTHER SIBLINGS WERE ANNIE COOK, JOHN THOMAS COOK AND FRANK COOK.
HE IS BURIED IN FRANCE. HIS GRAVE INSCRIPTION, READS, “LOVED, HONOURED AND REMEMBERED”.