Cook Robert John Sapper 1909520
Personnel Entry
Name Cook Robert John
Army number 1909520.
Rank Sapper
Decorations None known beyond Service Awards.
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.
Company/Battery
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. 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.
Source table
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.
