Name
Stanley Cook
1890
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/10/1918
28
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Driver
196676
Royal Horse Artillery
20th Bde. Ammunition Col.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BEIRUT WAR CEMETERY
15
Lebanon
Headstone Inscription
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
UK & Other Memorials
Great Gaddesden Village Memorial, St John the Baptist Church Roll of Honour, Great Gaddesden, Not on the Hemel Hempstead memorials, We are not aware of any memorial in Gaddesden Row
Pre War
Stanley Cooke was born in 1890 in Gaddesden Row, Hemel Hempstead, Herts, the illegitimate son of Rebecca Cook.
On the 1891 Census Stanley and mother Rebecca were living at Bradwin Lane, Great Gaddesden, the home of Maria Welch (Rebecca’s widowed sister), her son Thomas, Ann Cook (Stanley’s grandmother),and her son Timothy. On the 1901 Census On the 1901 Census he was living with his widowed grandmother Ann Cook, Uncle Timothy and Sister Annie at Braden Lane, Great Gaddesden, Herts.
His mother was working as a strawplaiter and his uncle was working as a shepherd on a farm. By the 1911 Census his grandmother had died and he was living with his mother and sister at his uncle's home in Gaddesden Row, Stanley was working as a Farm Labourer.
Wartime Service
Stanley enlisted in Luton, Beds and served as Driver 196676 with the 20th Brigade Ammunition Column. Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery.
He died of malaria in Egypt (officially) and is buried at the Beirut War Cemetery, Lebanon. Beirut was occupied on 8 Oct 1918 and the 32nd and 15th Combined Clearing Hospitals were rapidly deployed there. It is likely that Stanley died in hospital in Beirut.
Additional Information
His mother received a war gratuity of £19 and pay owing of £21 11s 8d. She also received a pension of 12 shillings 6d a week. His birth was registered with the surname spelled Cook, Gaddesden Row, Hemel Hempstead, Herts. without an 'e' and this spelling was used on census returns, but for most military records the spelling is Cooke.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer, Stuart Osborne, Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild, dacorumheritage.org.uk, hemelatwar.org.
