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Bmbdr. Edwin Cook
British Army D Bty. 103rd Brigade Royal Field Artillery
from:Burraton, Near Saltash, Cornwall
(d.15th Jun 1918)
Edwin Cook was raised within sight of the River Tamar, in the rolling farmland of southeast Cornwall. One of five children, he sang in the local Methodist chapel choir at Burraton, a small village close to Saltash. He was married to Linda (known as Lin), and the couple had one son.
Having served on the Western Front, Edwin and his comrades endured an exhausting march south, across the Alps, and onto the Asiago Plateau in northern Italy. He was killed at the second Battle of the Piave River, part of a small British contingent supporting Italian forces in their decisive defeat of the Austro-Hungarians. Edwin lies buried amidst the pine forests in the tiny British military cemetery at Granezza.
