Rank and Name, Private Joseph Cooke.
Unit/Placed in, Essex Scottish Regiment, R.C.I.C..
Joseph is born approx. on 29 Dec. 1923 in.
Father, Joseph Cooke.
Mother, Elizabeth (Aitkenhead) Cooke.
Sister(s), Evelyn, Myrtle, Frances A. and Alice Cooke.
Brother(s), Andrew, William E. and Kenneth R. Cooke.
Joseph enlisted the service in Manitoba with service number # H/8017.
Joseph was KIA holding the line at Woensdrecht, Noord-Brabant on 16 Oct. 1944.
Joseph is buried/mentioned at Bergen-op-Zoom Canadian War Cemetery
Bergen op Zoom, Bergen op Zoom Municipality, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands.
Thanks to, https://canadianbattlefieldtours.ca/
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L62Z-CSG
Jean Louis Vijgen, ww2-Pacific.com and Europe 1940-1945 on Facebook.
Air Force Info, Rolland Swank.
ABMC Website, https://abmc.gov
Marines Info, https://missingmarines.com/ Geoffrey Roecker
Seabees History Bob Smith https://seabeehf.org/
Navy Info, http://navylog.navymemorial.org
POW Info, http://www.mansell.com Dwight Rider and Wes injerd.
Philippine Info, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/ Robert Capistrano
National Historian
Navy Seal Memorial, http://www.navysealmemorials.com
Family Info, https://www.familysearch.org
Info, https://www.pacificwrecks.com/
Medals Info, https://www.honorstates.org
Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com
Tank Destroyers, http://www.bensavelkoul.nl/
