Cecil Harold Cook

Conflict:

WW2

Additional Information:

Son of Harold and Winifred Cook, of Karori, Wellington.

References:

CWGC

NZ WAR GRAVES

Biographical Notes:

An Oxford 1, flown by Verdun Godfrey and Cecil Cook, with wireless operator Donald Paterson, left Timaru for a navigation exercise to a position at sea. Despite 90 hours of extensive searches, the aircraft was not found.

[For Your Tomorrow, Errol Martyn, Vol.2 p.192]

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Casualty

Service Number:

415685

Name:

Cecil Harold Cook

Date of Birth:

Not known

Date of Enlistment:

Not known

Unit:

Royal New Zealand Air Force

Casualty Details

Cause of Death:

Air Accident

Date of Death:

26 March 1942

Day of Death:

Thursday

Age at Death:

Conflict:

WW2

Embarkation Details

Text in italics supplied by Cenotaph Online, Auckland War Memorial Museum

Cemetery

Cemetery:

Wellington Provincial Memorial

Cemetery Location:

New Zealand