Company Sergeant Major Bernard Cook

Army Number : 240711

Battalion : 2/6th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Whittington, Derbyshire. Son of Arthur and Annie Cook, of Sheepbridge, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. He lived at Brompton, Chesterfield. He was a coal and iron commercial clerk prior to enlisting at Chesterfield. He was killed in action, 26th September 1917, aged 23, in the attack near Vlamertinghe, near Ypres, Belgium.

Buried : New Irish Farm Cemetery, Belgium. Plot 15. Row B. Grave 3.

Company Sergeant Major Bernard Cook is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Thomas the Apostles Church War Memorial, Brampton, Chesterfield, Derbyshire.