Arthur Frank Cook

Private

Conflict:

WW2

Additional Information:

Son of Abraham and Sarah Cook.

References:

CWGC

NZ WAR GRAVES

Biographical Notes:

(0.C.) WHANGAREI, this day. The practice of persons standing on the body of a truck when the vehicle was in motion was condemned by the district coroner, Mr. J G. Draper, to-day, when finding that Private Arthur Frank Cook, aged 55, of Auckland, died from head injuries received when he fell from a moving Army truck in Kamo Road, Whangarei. The driver of the truck said that two men were leaning on the cab of his open truck, the sideboards of which had been removed. Private Cook's companion in, the rear of the truck said it was too bumpy to sit down on the iron floor of the empty truck. As the vehicle rounded a bend Private Cookturned as if about to sit down, overbalanced and landed on his head on the roadway.

AUCKLAND STAR, VOLUME LXXV, ISSUE 146, 22 JUNE 1944, PAGE 3

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Casualty

Service Number:

812288

Name:

Arthur Frank Cook

Rank:

Private

Date of Birth:

Not known

Date of Enlistment:

Not known

Unit:

New Zealand Military Forces

Casualty Details

Cause of Death:

Accidental Death

Date of Death:

16 June 1944

Day of Death:

Friday

Age at Death:

Conflict:

WW2

Embarkation Details

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

Cemetery

Cemetery:

Hillsborough Cemetery

Cemetery Reference:

Area 12, Block B, Grave 329.

Cemetery Location:

New Zealand