COOK A.
Alfred Cook
Private 950
1st/8th Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.)
Alfred Cook died on Tuesday 15 June 1915, Age 23, and was remembered on the YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
He was born 17th November 1891 on Welbeck Street, Sutton-in-Ashfield. He was the son of Robert Cook and Sarah Ann (formerly Turner), who married at St Mary's Church, Sutton-in-Ashfield in August 1882.
His home
address at the time of his death was 1 Park Street,
Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottingham. He was the brother of Harold Cook, who
is also remembered on the War Memorial.
Notts Free Press, 16th June 1916 |
Notts Free Press, In Memoriam, 14th June 1918 |
From ‘Soldiers who died in the Great War 1914-19 – Part 49 The Sherwood Foresters’
ALFRED COOK Born Sutton-in-Ashfield, Enlisted Sutton-in-Ashfield. 1/8th Bn. Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regt.). Private 950, Killed in Action, France & Flanders 15th June 1915.
Research by Helen Wilson and Heather Faulkes