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Pte. Cecil Winchester Cook
British Army 2nd Battalion Royal Hampshire Regiment
from:Ash, Surrey
(d.3rd December 1942)
Cecil Cook was born in Ash, Surrey on 15th April 1919 the youngest son of Joshua Cook and Emily Jane Waters.
He joined the Army and served in the 2nd Battalion, Royal Hampshire Regiment and attended a camp at Corfe Castle Camp, Swanage in 1939.
He married a lady called Ivy in 1942. She was in the WAAF.
He served with his regiment in November 1942 in Terboura, Tunisia, North Africa. He was killed in action on Thursday 3rd of December 1942. His body was not recovered.
His name appears on the war memorial in Medjez-El-Bab, Beja, Tunisia and also the Ash War Memorial in Ash, Surrey.