Charles Stanley Blannin Cook
Memorial: Downend - Christ Church
Regiment: London Regiment
Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal
Rank and number: Second Lieutenant
Parents: Albert Brooks and Elizabeth Cook
Marital status: Single
Home address: Luanza, Overnhill Road, Staple Hill, Bristol
Pre-war occupation: Clerk in tobacco trade
Date of birth: 1877
Place of birth: Stapleton, Glos
Date of death: 15/09/1916
Buried/Commemorated at: Aveluy Wood Cemetery, Mesnil-Martinsart, Departement de la Somme, Picardie, France
Age: 39
Further information:
Charles was baptised at St. Mary's Church, Fishponds on 25th March 1877. He served in 5th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry and was attached to 1st/8th Battalion, London Regiment (Post Office Rifles). The Post Office Rifles fought at the Somme and at Passchendaele (Third Ypres) and suffered tremendous losses. More than half of their fighting force was lost at the Battle of Wurst Farm Ridge in September 1917 when Second Lieutenant Cook was killed. In his Will Second Lieutenant Cook granted probate to brother Albert Edwin Blannin Cook, his effects amounting to £295.2s.7d.
Commemorated on the Christ Church Downend and Staple Hill (Page Park) Memorials.
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
Forces War Records, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Soldiers Died In The Great War, Find A Grave index, Free BMD, Register of Soldiers' Effects, Medal Rolls Index Card, UK Censuses, David Blackmore – Mangotsfield Residents Association