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Military service
Service number:
427770
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
58th Bn. Canadian Inf .
Birth:
December 3, 1893
Enlistment:
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
Death:
November 20, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
South-West part.
Digital gallery of Private James Russell Cookson
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Identity disc
James Russell Cookson's identity disc -
Cemetery
This is a view of St Anne's Churchyard, Woodplumpton, Lancashire where James Russell Cookson is buried. -
Grave marker
This is James Russell Cookson's grave marker in St Anne's Churchyard, Woodplumpton, Lancashire adjacent to his adopted parents' headstone, Thomas and Ellen Cookson (his registered surname at birth was Hodgson). He was born on 3rd December 1893 and enlisted at Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan on 14th July 1915. He was a railway worker.
Digital gallery of
Private James Russell Cookson
Digital gallery of
Private James Russell Cookson
Digital gallery of
Private James Russell Cookson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 70 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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WOODPLUMPTON (ST. ANNE) CHURCHYARD Lancashire, United Kingdom
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