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Born: 1897. East London, England.
Died: 12th of October 1917. Killed in Action Passchendaele, Belgium.
Father: Alfred Cook.
Sydney Cook enlisted with the No:1 Field Engineers on the 20th of August 1914 with the
rank of Sapper.
Meanwhile, however, the German artillery was annihialating some parts of their line. All leaders
of Carr's three posts were out of action. Lieutenant: J F Adams was
Killed in Action and Lieutenant: Norman
Beade D'Arcy MC and Lieutenant:
Harold Sydney Wyndham were wounded. Of the remaining officers of the 36th Battalion,
Major: John Bruce Buchanan and Lieutenant:
Frederick William Putney had been Killed in Action and
Captain: Robert Austin Goldrick MC
wounded. Farther back Lieutenant: Sydney Cook had been
Killed in Action and Lieutenant: William
Wand and Lieutenant Herbert Reginald Mailer were wounded.
(BEAN; History of World War 1 Vol IV page 922)
Sydney is remembered with honour and is commemerated in perpetuity by the Commonweath War Graves
Commission at Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial Belgium.
Sydney was single 20 year old Carpenter and Joiner from Sydney, New South Wales. His parents lived at 10 Benton Road, Seven Kings, Essex,
England.
(Australian National Archives)
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