View source for Cook Philip Edward Gunner 6912542

{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Cook Philip Edward
|Army number=6912542
|Rank=Gunner
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards
|Date of birth=Not yet ascertained.
|Age=(At time of death).  Not yet known.
|Unit=Enlisted in The Rifle Brigade  and underwent Basic Training.  Posted to ? Battalion.  Transferred to the Royal Artillery and posted to the 3rd Reserve Medium Regiment 26/10/1942.  Posted to 143rd Field Regiment 4/5/1943.  Served Normandy?  Posted X List (II) 21 Army Group 31/7/1944.  Posted to 143rd Field Regiment 25/8/1944.  Returned to the UK.  Posted Y Release 28/10/1945.  Posted to the R.A. Depot 23/11/1945.  Returned to North West Europe.  Posted 143rd Field Regiment 5/12/1945.  Posted 52 RHU 1/4/1946.  Posted X List 7 BAOR 7/9/1946.  Transferred to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps 20/11/1947 under the Authority of 2E/BAOR/org/C/70370/1 dated 11/11/1947.  Part II Orders Corps X List 650/2 dated 6/12/1947.  Documents to RAOC Records 20/11/1947.  
|Company/Battery=Not yet known.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Not yet known.
|Task or role=Details awaited.
|Joined Brigade=Not yet known.
|Promotions=None known.
|Wounded=Not so far as is known.
|Prisoner of War=Not so far as is known.
|Died/Killed in action=Date of death not yet ascertained.
|Home address=No family information yet. 
}}

Information on this Page has been extracted from the Royal Artillery Tracer Card found for this soldier on Ancestry.co.uk