John Krempowiecki Cook
A Private with 4 Motor Ambulance Company, John died on 1st of October 1941 aged 25.
Son of William John and Violetta Cook of Lowestoft Suffolk. In 1939 his family lived at 1 Pidgeon Cove Cottages, Guestling, Sussex. Previously John’s mother had lived at Corton.
John attended Chichester High School for Boys from 1931 to 1933. See: The Fallen - John Krempowiecki Cook - Old Cicestrians
John was captured at Boulogne on 20 May 1940 and then held as a prisoner of war in Germany. John contracted tuberculosis and died ay Kingswartha Hospital, near Dresden.
PrimarySource
Lived at
John Cook
Lowestoft
United Kingdom
52.48097975414, 1.7537494074097
CountryOfService
United Kingdom
BranchService
Army
Regiment
Royal Army Medical Corps
ServiceNumber
7264536
Burial/Memorial
Germany
BERLIN 1939-1945 WAR CEMETERY
11. M. 3.
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