Private Harold Cook

Army Number : 2088

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

Born 12th January 1890 at Sutton-In-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire and lived at 6 Little Dale Street, Sutton-In-Ashfield, Son of Robert and Sarah Ann Cook, of 1, Park Street, Sutton-In-Ashfield; Husband of Ellen Bradley (formerly Cook), of 6, Quarry Yard, Sutton-In-Ashfield, He was a coal miner at Silverhill Colliery prior to enlisting at Newark, Nottinghamshire, 9th August 1914. He was killed in action on 14th October 1915, aged 25, in the attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt, France.

Buried: Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, France. Plot 27, Row L, Grave 5.

Private Harold 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.

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