Peter Percy Cooke
Service number
C/JX 375049
Military unit
HMS Corncrake Royal Navy
Address
38 Duke Street, Mansfield
Date of birth
08 May 1924
Date of death
25 Jan 1943 (18 years old)
Place of birth
Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
Employment, education or hobbies
Unknown
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Family history
Son of George Spencer and Evelyn Cooke, of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
In 1939 Evelyn and the two boys where living at 38 Duke Street, Mansfield.
Peter had one brother, Gerald T born in 1926.
Military history
HMS Corncrake: a trawler converted for mine laying was sunk in the Atlantic.
HMS Corncrake was on escort duty to convoy KMS-8 (60 merchant ships and 17 escort vessels) which had left the River Clyde on 21st January 1943 heading for Bone, Algeria when she founded in heavy weather in the Atlantic. Her crew of 23 were lost at sea.
Rhe Corncrake had originally been named "Mackeral"
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