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Second Lieutenant PAUL COOKE

Service Number: 124160
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 28 May 1940

Age 24 years old

Buried or commemorated at

COMINES (KOMEN) COMMUNAL CEMETERY

British Plot. Grave 1.

Belgium

Famous Sportsmen, Rugby: headstone of 2nd Lieut P Cooke in Comines (Komen) Communal Cemetery, Belgium

Photographer: Unknown

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of William Morley Cooke and Dora Cooke, of Slough, Buckinghamshire. B.A. (Oxon.). Rugby Football Blue and English International.
  • Personal Inscription FOLLOWING THE PATH OF DUTY HE PASSED BEYOND THE SIGHT OF MAN
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Buried or commemorated at

COMINES (KOMEN) COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Hainaut Belgium
Number of casualties: 100
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