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Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

COOK, Pte Charles St George (b 1891)


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0099 KCLMA Cook

Held at: Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King's College London

Title: COOK, Pte Charles St George (b 1891)

Date(s): 1914-1915, [1984]-1988

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Cook | Charles St George | b 1891 | Private

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Born in 1891; educated at Bideford Grammar School; moved to London in 1908, and was employed as a clerk first in the Patent Office and then at Banstead Mental Hospital; volunteered for service and posted to Dover with 3 and 10 Bns, East Surrey Regt, 1914; student, later instructor, School of Musketry, Hythe, 1915; posted to Machine Gun Training School, Grantham, 1915-1916; Machine Gun Corps Base Depot, Camiers, France, 1916-1918; joined 21 Bn, 1918 and took part in Third Army attack across the Ancre, Aug 1918. Donald Cook, his son, was born in 1926.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Letters From A Volunteer, a pamphlet edition of letters written to his parents while in barracks at Dover with 3 and 10 Bns East Surrey Regt, Oct 1914-Jan 1915, illustrated with photographs and privately published by Don(ald) Cook in 1984; photocopies of two articles by Donald Cook, namely 'The agony of Loos', on the Battle of Loos, France, Sep 1915, from Stand To! The Journal of the Western Front Association, Summer 1985, and 'Divisional Commander in France: General Sir David Campbell GCB', on the military career of Campbell, 1896-1936, particularly his service on the Western Front, 1914-1918, and his role as commander of 21 Div, 1916-1919, from The Army Quarterly and Defence Journal, vol 118, no 2, Apr 1988; copies of sketch maps relating to the above articles, [1984-1988].

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

1 file

Conditions governing access:

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be supplied for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, attention of the Director of Archive Services.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Summary guide available on-line at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/top.htm, and in hard copy in the Centre's reading room.

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented to the Centre by the family in 1988.

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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Date(s) of descriptions: Aug 1996


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Armed forces | State security
Maps | Visual materials
Photographs | Visual materials
War | International conflicts
World War One (1914-1918) | World wars (events) | Wars (events)
International relations
Military organizations

Personal names
Campbell | Sir | David Graham Muschet | 1869-1936 | Knight | General
Cook | Charles St George | b 1891 | Private
Cook | Donald | b 1926 | son of Private Charles St George Cook

Corporate names
British Army
East Surrey Regiment

Places
Dover | Kent | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Loos | France | Western Europe | Europe