Private Alfred Cook

Army Number: 950

Battalion: 1/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

British 15 Star, British War and Victory Medal

Born 17th November 1891. Son of Robert and Sarah Ann Cook, of 1, Park Street, Sutton-In-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. He was a coal miner at New Hucknall Colliery prior to enlisting on 22nd August 1910 at Sutton-In-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. He went to France on 2nd March 1915 and was killed in action, 15th June 1915, aged 23, during a German raid on the British line at Kemmel, Belgium.

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

Ypres Menin Gate Memorial, Belgium.

Private Alfred Cook is also commemorated on the following local memorials:–
Sutton War Memorial (St. Michael and All Angels Cross), Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
Sutton-in-Ashfield Cemetery War Memorial, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Private Harold Cook 1/8th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment also fell in the Great War.