Captain James Gore Cooke

Army Number: n/a

Battalion: 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

He was born on 9th September 1892 in Nottingham. Son of James Sanders Cooke and Harriett Emma Cooke, of 26 Central Avenue, New Basford, Nottingham. Educated at Stanley Road Elementary Council School, Nottingham and High Pavement Boys’ Grammar School, Nottingham. He was a solicitor’s clerk prior to enlisting. He was posted Lieutenant 16th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, 1st May 1915 and was promoted Captain, 4th September 1915, commanding B Company 14th June 1916. He was killed in action, 8th October 1916, in the attack on the German positions at the Schwaben Redoubt, near Thiepval, France during the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Captain James Gore Cooke is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Andrew’s Church War Memorial, Nottingham.
St. Augustine’s Church War Memorial, (St. Leodegarius Church) Basford, Nottingham.
High Pavement Boys’ Grammar School Roll of Honour, (Nottinghamshire Archives) Nottingham,
Nottingham University O.T.C. War Memorial, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.