Philip Harry Cook
Memorial: Downend - Christ Church
Regiment: London Regiment
Medals: British War Medal, Next of Kin Memorial Plaque 1914 - 1921, Victory Medal
Rank and number: 2nd Lieutenant
Parents: Albert and Elizabeth Cook
Marital status: Married
Home address: Home Address: 4 Guinea Road, Fishponds, Bristol. Lived: Overnhill Road, Staple Hill, Bristol (1911 Census, family home but mother then a widow)
Pre-war occupation: Clerk in the cocoa trade at J. S. Fry & Sons
Date of birth: 1886
Date of death: 19/07/1917
Buried/Commemorated at: Oak Dump Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Age: 31
Further information:
Philip was married to Dorothy (nee Saise) in 1915.
Philip served with the 1st/8th London Regiment (he enlisted in the Gloucestershire Regiment) and was Killed in Action on 17/07/1917 aged 31. The 1st/8th London Regiment were known as the Post Office Rifles
By kind permission, this information is based on the following source(s):
Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Findmypast (Soldiers Died during the Great War, 1901 & 1911 Census etc), Researcher John Davis.