Private Thomas Albert COOKE (known as Albert)
Northamptonshire Regiment 23196
2nd Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment 43375
Thomas Albert was born on 26 January 1896 in Spratton, the son of an Irish waggoner, Thomas Cooke and his wife Sarah Ann. To distinguish him from his father, he was known as Albert. The large family of five sons and two daughters lived in a small three-roomed cottage in Bakers Lane, Spratton. Albert and his older brother Harry were both farm labourers and both served in the First World War.
Albert was conscripted into the Northamptonshire Regiment on 1 March 1916 and sent to France with the British Expeditionary Force in October 1916. He fought at Vimy Ridge, Messines, Ypres and Passchendaele before being killed in action with the 2nd Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment at Arras on 20 September 1917 aged 21. He has no known grave and his name is inscribed on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium. He is also remembered on the War Memorial in the churchyard at Spratton. Albert was awarded the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.
(Albert always spells his surname as COOKE and his brother Harry spells it COOK. On the census forms the family always use COOKE)
Albert Cook's name is inscribed on the Tyne Cot Memorial, near Ypres in Belgium
Albert Cook's name is inscribed on the Tyne Cot Memorial, near Ypres in Belgium
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- Corporal Frank AUSTIN
- Lance Corporal James William AUSTIN
- Private John Samuel AUSTIN
- Sergeant William Henry AUSTIN
- Sergeant Bertie Henry BALDERSON
- Corporal Frederick Charles BALDERSON MM
- Lance Corporal Robert Samuel BALDERSON
- Private George William BUCKBY (known as William)
- Private Henry Andrew BUCKBY
- Richard Henry Horne BUCKBY
- Transport Sergeant Thomas BUCKBY MM
- Company Quartermaster Sergeant William Gander BUCKBY
- William Archibald COPSON (known as Archibald)
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- Private Ernest Edward COPSON
- Pioneer Henry Owman COPSON (known as Harry)
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- Sergeant Joseph Eric GOODEN (known as Eric)
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- Driver Frank Leonard HAYTER
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- Lance Corporal John Charles HAYTER DCM (known as Jack)
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- Ordinary Seaman Arthur Charles HORNE
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- Lance Corporal Lewis HORNE
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- Driver John Henry LEESON
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- Thomas Baden Powell LEESON (known as ‘Bard’)
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- Corporal Amos MANNING
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- Sergeant George William MANNING
- Sapper Henry Stanley MANNING (known as Stanley)
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- Air Mechanic Nathaniel MANNING
- Driver/Saddler Samuel MANNING
- Gunner George Albert MARTIN
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- Pioneer Walter Ernest MARTIN
- Sergeant William Higgs MARTIN, DCM
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