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Military service
Service number:
2020200
Age:
33
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
47th Bn.
Birth:
May 25, 1885
Enlistment:
Vancouver, British Columbia
Death:
August 17, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I. F. 16.
Additional information
Son of William Cooke.
Digital gallery of Private Roscoe Cooke
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Gravemarker
Memorial Grave of 2020200 Pvt. Roscoe Cooke 47th Battn. CEF in the New Westminster BC City Cem. KIA Aug. 17th 1918 in France. -
Photo of Roscoe Cooke
Pvt. Roscoe Cooke 2020200 47th Battn. C.E.F. KIA in France Aug. 17th 1918. -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRC UMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CONNON TO CORBETT. Microform Sequence 22; Volume Number 31829_B016731. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 166. Page 399 of 818. Private Roscoe Cooke was originally buried near the Regimental First Aid Post off Fourquescourt Road. After the Armistice his body was exhumed and re-interred in Caix British Cemetery which was created at the time to hold the remains of soldiers exhumed from graves (mainly of March and August 1918) from nearby battlefields and smaller cemeteries. -
Newspaper clipping
From the Vancouver Daily Province December 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Grave Marker
Grave marker of Roscoe Cooke, Caix France 2015
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Private Roscoe Cooke
Digital gallery of
Private Roscoe Cooke
Digital gallery of
Private Roscoe Cooke
Digital gallery of
Private Roscoe Cooke
Digital gallery of
Private Roscoe Cooke
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 388 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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