Lance/Corporal Abraham Cook
28687 13th Liverpool Regiment
Killed in Action 14th July 1916
Lived at 30 Church Street
Commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France
Burnley Express 5th November 1917

KILLED IN FIRST WEEK (Burnley Express 5th May 1917)

After months of anxiety, Mrs Cook, of 25, Keith Street, Burnley, received official word from the Record Office, Preston, on Tuesday evening, that her husband, Lce-Corpl. A. Cook (28687), of the King’s Liverpool Regiment, was killed in action on July 14th 1916, having previously been reported missing. Lce.-Corpl. Cook enlisted at Burnley on May 17th, 1915, in the East Lancashire Regiment, and after training was transferred to the King’s Liverpools. Eventually he was drafted to Egypt, where he spent nine months. Transferred to France, he was killed in his first week’s experience in the trenches on the Somme. Previous to joining the colours he was employed as a miner at Clifton Pit, where he was highly respected by his fellow workmen. A widow and two children mourn his loss.