Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
RYDE SOCIAL HERITAGE GROUP
Based at Ryde Cemetery Heritage & Learning Centre. Preserving, documenting and promoting the social history of Ryde on the Isle of Wight.
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Ryde Cemetery

Mr Cornwall Cook (Private)

Title: Mr
Forenames: Cornwall
Surnames: Cook
Date of Death: 28/04/1917
Age at Death Years: 34
Grave Type: Marked
Military Rank: Private
Map Reference Number: RSHG 042 D1
Plot Number: Ryde New Cemetery Section G Plot 2005a
Grave Description: Grave with high stone kerbs and granite chipping infill.
Grave Condition: Poor
Grave Condition Description: The headstone is broken into at least seven pieces. Only two remain standing with the others on the ground behind the headstone. Six of the pieces were temporarily reassembled to allow a photograph to be taken and the entire inscription transcribed. The broken pieces had to be replaced on the ground for safety reasons.
Other Information: Completed date, source: Newspaper and CWGC records
Cornwall Cook is also remembered on his parents memorial Ryde New Cemetery Section K Plot 3305 RSHG 049 D2
Although not mentioned on the memorial, the cremated remains of Ellen Florence Irene Cook were interred in this plot (2014), source: Bereavement Services records
Old Website Grave ID: 7073

Inscription:

IN LOVING MEMORY OF
KATE COOK
DIED JULY 20TH 1951

CORNWALL COOK
WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION FRANCE APRIL 1917 AGED 34

CORNWALL ARTHUR MARCHANT COOK
BELOVED HUSBAND OF RENE
DIED OCTOBER 7TH(?) 1982 AGED 65

ALSO SON TERENCE CORNWALL COOK
DIED FEBRUARY 20TH 1986 AGED 42

YOU WILL ALWAYS BE WITH US TERRY
LOVE ALWAYS FROM YOUR WIFE JAN, MAIRA AND RUSSELL.

Photographs:

David Earle
C Cook 21.08.09
Photographer: David Earle
David Earle
C Cook
Photographer: David Earle

Related Documents:

PDF file: Details from the Commonwealth Wargraves Commission
PDF file: Birth; Census; Death; War Report.
''Reference from the IW and General Registrars birth records, entry from the 1901 census, and the missing and casualty report from the IW County Press.''

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