Sidney Charles Cook

A Skipper with Steam Drifter W. A. Massey (Lowestoft), Sidney died on 11th of March 1918 aged 35. 

Sidney was born at Kessingland on 14 February 1883, a son of Charles and Mina Cook. He was baptised at Saint Edmund’s Church, Kessingland, on 30 March 1884. Sidney attended Kessingland School and on 14 October 1889 became a pupil at Cunningham School, leaving that school on 19 February 1895. 

In 1891 his family lived at Stone Alley, 8 Pakefield Street, and by 1911 their home was at 44 Acton Road and Sidney was a fisherman.

In 1911 Sidney married Ethel Mildred Hall, who came from Geldeston. By 1918 their home was at Foxburrow, The Avenue, Kirkley. Later Ethel lived at Sunnymeade, Geldeston.  

On 11 March 1918 the trawler W.A. Massey, LT 1090, was sunk by a mine when fishing about five miles west of Craeg a Mhail, Handa Island, Scotland. The trawler Rose was fishing nearby and reported the loss. 

Sidney's brother, Reginald, served with H.M.M.B. Cervantes and died in 1942.