Dook, Frank

BORN HULL 1895. SON OF CHARLES EDWARD & LIZZIE DOOK ABOVE. BLACKSMITH HIS NAME WAS RECORDED ON THE WAR MEMORIAL AT ST THOMAS CHURCH, CAMPBELL STREET, WHICH WAS DESTROYED IN AN AIR RAID DURING WW2. NOTE: WILLIAM & CHARLES DOOK – 90 CLUMBER STREET. WILLIAM DOOK, MGC – 202 REGENT STREET, HULL.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE FRANK DOOK 11/958. Born in April 1895, Frank was the eldest of seven children to Charles and Lizzie Dook of 51 Campbell Street, Hull. A Blacksmith’s Striker by trade, he queued outside Hull City Hall to enlist on Thursday 10th September 1914 joining the newly-formed 11th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, ‘The Tradesmen’, 2nd Hull Pals. He trained at Hornsea, Beverley and Ripon throughout 1915 and shipped to Egypt that December. The Pals were posted there to help defend the Suez Canal from potential attack by the Turks, though in reality disease, the biting cold of desert nights and boredom were their biggest threats. Their war changed on March 7th 1916 when they left Port Said and sailed for France. After docking in Marseilles they headed north for the trenches, arriving on the Somme in late March. A veteran of the Somme and Oppy Wood, Frank was wounded during raids on German positions at Fresnoy on 8th November 1917 and was evacuated to 8th Casualty Clearing Station where he died of wounds the following day. Frank Dook is buried at Duisans British Cemetery; he was 22 years old.