Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (6456465. Fsr. H. Cook. R. Fus.) light scratches to obverse field, good very fine, scarce to unit £100-£140

Henry Cecil Cook was born in 1906 and attested for the Royal Fusiliers. He served in pre-War Palestine attached to the 2nd Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (the Royal Fusiliers did not serve in Palestine as a unit), and then with the 2nd and 1st Battalions during the Second World War. He was wounded in France in 1940 whilst serving with the British Expeditionary Force (Casualty List no. 234 of 18 June 1940 refers), and was later captured and taken Prisoner of War by the Vichy French forces in Syria in July 1941. Repatriated in October of that year, he was subsequently wounded in Italy in June or July 1944 (Casualty List no. 1498 of 14 July 1944 refers), and was then killed in action on 29 August 1944, on which date the Battalion was engaged in fighting in the area of Poggerello, on the eastern flank of Montefiesole. He is buried in Florence War Cemetery, Italy.

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