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{{personnel
|Surname and forenames=Cook Robert John
|Army number=1909520.
|Rank=Sapper
|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards
|Date of birth=Not yet traced.
|Age=(At time of death). Not yet known.
|Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Engineers. Underwent Basic Training. Posted to 294th Field Company, Royal Engineers. Served Normandy. KILLED in ACTION 11/8/1944.
|Platoon or other sub-unit=Served in No. 1 Platoon.
|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=KILLED in ACTION 11/8/1944. Initially interred at Le Proirier GSOS 4250 Map Reference France Sheet 7F/2 107,629. Re-buried in Ranville War Cemetery Grave reference VIII. C. 25. No headstone inscription.
|Home address=No family information as yet. Lived at 301, Balmoral Drive, Hayes, Middlesex. Probate granted at Llandudno on 25/1/1945 in the sum of £38/16/1d to Georgina Rose Salisbury, Widow. Research has not yet thrown up any family links, parentage or birth.
}}

Some information on this Page has been extracted from the Commemorative Booklet, prepared by Major Langley, covering the period from D-Day to VE Day in addition to that extracted from the War Diaries. There are issues around the possible duplication of names which remain to be clarified.

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 |Army number=1909520.
 |Rank=Sapper
-|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards
+|Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards.
-|Date of birth=Not yet traced.
+|Date of birth=11/10/1919.
 |Age=(At time of death).  Not yet known.
 |Unit=Enlisted in the Royal Engineers.  Underwent Basic Training.  Posted to 294th Field Company, Royal Engineers.   Served Normandy.  KILLED in ACTION 11/8/1944.
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 |Prisoner of War=Not so far as is known.
 |Died/Killed in action=KILLED in ACTION 11/8/1944.  Initially interred at Le Proirier GSOS 4250 Map Reference France Sheet 7F/2 107,629.  Re-buried in Ranville War Cemetery Grave reference VIII. C. 25.  No headstone inscription.
-|Home address=No family information as yet.  Lived at 301, Balmoral Drive, Hayes, Middlesex.  Probate granted at Llandudno on 25/1/1945 in the sum of £38/16/1d to Georgina Rose Salisbury, Widow.  Research has not yet thrown up any family links, parentage or birth.
+|Home address=No family information as yet.  Working at the time of the 1939 General Register as a Gasworks Stoker - single.  Lived at 301, Balmoral Drive, Hayes, Middlesex.  Probate granted at Llandudno on 25/1/1945 in the sum of £38/16/1d to Georgina Rose Salisbury, Widow (who appears to have been Sapper Cook's Landlady).  Research has not yet thrown up any family links or parentage.
 }}
 Some information on this Page has been extracted from the Commemorative Booklet, prepared by Major Langley, covering the period from D-Day to VE Day in addition to that extracted from the War Diaries.  There are issues around the possible duplication of names which remain to be clarified.

Cook Robert John Sapper 1909520 - Revision history

70bgadmin at 11:03, 23 July 2020

70bgadmin: Created page with "{{personnel |Surname and forenames=Cook Robert John |Army number=1909520. |Rank=Sapper |Decorations=None known beyond Service Awards |Date of birth=Not yet traced. |Age=(At ti..."