The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Private L Cook

Private Leonard COOK, L/10194, 10th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, killed in action, Flanders France, 8th May 1918.

Born Halliford, MIddlesex, son of William & Fanny Cook, Stroud Cottages, Nursery Road, Sunbury, Middlesex.

1911 Census - 6 Osborne Villas, Nursery Road, Sunbury on Thames, Sunbury, Middlesex - William Denney Cook, head, age 46, married, carpenter, born Skibberee? County Cork; Fanny Cook, wife, age 45, married 25 years, 12 children, 11 still alive, born Sunbury, Middlesex; Leonard Cook, son, age 15, single, under gardener, domestic, born Sunbury, Middlesex; Monica Cook, daughter, age 13, school, born Sunbury, Middlesex; Thomas Cook, son, age 11, school, born Sunbury, Middlesex; Edward Cook, son, age 9, school, born Sunbury, Middlesex; Jack Cook, son, age 4, born Sunbury, Middlesex.

Enlisted Kingston on Thames, Surrey. Resided Sunbury, Middlesex.

Home 2nd October 1913 to 7th November 1914; BEF 8th November 1914 to 4th June 1917; Home 5th June 1917 to 29th March 1918; BEF 30th March 1918 to 8th May 1918.

2nd October 1913, enlisted & posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 10th February 1914, posted 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 3rd April 1914, awarded 3rd Class Certificate of Education; 10th September 1914? posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 8th November 1914, posted BEF & 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 3rd August 1915, awarded 14 days Field Punishment No.2.; 12th June 1916, deprived 14 days pay; 14th July 1916, appointed unpaid Lance Corporal; 22nd July 1916, appointed paid Lance Corporal; 20th August 1916, promoted Corporal; 21st May 1917, appointed paid Lance Sergeant; 29th May 1917, relegated to Corporal; 30th July 1917, Eastern Command Depot, Shoreham by Sea, gastric ulcer; 31st August 1917 to 24th September 1917, Military Wards, Shoreham by Sea, gastric ulcer; 24th September 1917 to 27th November 1917, 2nd? Eastern General Hospital, gastric ulcer; 2nd September 1917, posted Depot, Royal West Kent Regiment; 25th November 1917, posted 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 5th January 1918 to 11th January 1918, In detention awaiting Trial; 12th January 1918, tried by DCM, drunkenness, sentenced to be reduced to the ranks; 13th January 1918, to Duty; 16th March 1918, 3rd Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, appointed unpaid Lance Corporal; 30th March 1918, posted BEF as Private; 30th March 1918, posted 8th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment; 2nd April 1918, posted 10th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment.

16th June 1919, Statement of Relatives - Father, William Cook, Stroud Cottages, Nursery Road, Sunbury; Mother, Fanny Cook; Brothers - William Cook, age 30; George Cook, age 29; Edward Cook, age 16; Jack Cook, age 10; Thomas Cook, age 19; Sisters - Nellie Cook, age 32, Sunbury Manor; Fanny Fryer?, age 27, Mount Denis ??; Ethel Hughs?, age 24, Tilbury Lodge, ????; Monica Cook, age 21, Sunbury Manor; Kitty Cook, age 14, Stroud Cottages, Nursery Road, Sunbury.

Buried at White House Cemetery, III. P. 15., Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

This page was last updated on 30-Jan-2018.