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Military service
Service number:
642863
Age:
21
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
1ST Bn.
Birth:
April 21, 1896
Enlistment:
Collingwood, Ontario
Death:
February 18, 1918
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
III. A. 20.
Additional information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Cook, of Collingwood, Ontario; husband of Dorothy Cook, of 7, Albert Buildings, Mile End New Town, London, England.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal George Richard Cook
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Photo of GEORGE RICHARD COOK
From a collage photo layout of members of A Company and the bugle band of the 157th Canadian Infantry Battalion. -
Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS, FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: CONNON TO CORBETT. Microform Sequence 22; Volume Number 31829_B016731. Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 166. Page 229 of 818. -
Newspaper clipping
From the London Free Press March 1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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Lance Corporal George Richard Cook
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal George Richard Cook
Digital gallery of
Lance Corporal George Richard Cook
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 388 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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FOSSE No. 10 COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION Pas de Calais, France
Sains-en-Gohelle is a mining village 20 kilometres north of Arras on the road to Bethune. Fosse No.10 is a pithead and group of miners' houses south of the village.
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