Private Sam Cook

Army Number: 21442

Battalion: 10th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Retford, Nottinghamshire. Son of Sam and Clara Cook; Husband of Adelene Harston (formerly Cook), of 22, Wellington Street, Retford, Nottinghamshire. He was a labourer prior to enlisting at Retford and went to France 16th December 1915 and was killed in action, 14th February 1916, aged 22, during heavy German shellfire and the explosion of a German mine, prior to the German attack of the front line trenches, near the canal to the south-east of Ypres, Belgium

Commemorated: Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium. Panel 39 and 41.

Private Sam Cook is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
Retford War Memorial, Retford, Nottinghamshire.
St. Saviours Church War Memorial, Retford, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.