Lives of the First World War

Lieutenant John Howard Cooke. Unit: Army Service Corps, Mechanical Transport, attached to Royal Garrison Artillery. Death: 09 October 1918. Lieutenant JH Cooke enlisted with the 9th Battalion, Manchester Regiment in October 1914. John Cooke entered the army from the Manchester University Officer Training Corps as a Second Lieutenant. He submitted an application for transfer to the Army Service Corps and was made Lieutenant in June 1916. He served with a Mechanical Transport Company of the Army Service Corps attached to the 118th (and later the 11th) Siege Battery, Ammunition Column, Royal Garrison Artillery on the Western Front. His service was punctuated with several illnesses including inflamation of the heart and a displaced knee cartliage. He was admitted to 8th General Hospital in Rouen following a gun shot wound to the leg in August 1918. He later died of bronchopneumonia at 72nd General aged 25, in France on 9 October 1918. He is buried at the Tourgeville Military Cemetery.