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Norman McLeod Cooke was born in Scotland in December of 1886. Though he never lived in Ken-Ton, his daughter lived there for many years, and some of his descendants still live there.

Cooke was drafted into the Canadian military late on October 11, 1917 when he was nearly 32 years old. Cooke was asked by Canada and the allied powers to forsake the ledgers he kept as a Peterboro, Ontario bookkeeper for a rifle. He served in the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, a military unit still in existence in Canada.

Norman Cooke participated in the battles of Cambrai / Canal du Nord, two of the final battles of World War I. Canadian forces were central to this late action. Cooke was gassed by the Germans in October of 1918, just days before the end of the war. He survived the gas attack and was hospitalized, and was struck-off-service (discharged) on November 12, 1918, the day after the war ended. He returned to Canada and shortly thereafter moved to Buffalo, New York, where he started a family. Cooke died in Buffalo sometime in the mid 20th C.

We are currently searching for photos of Cooke, which we hope to post on this site soon. In the meantime, be sure to look at his draft document from 1917, as well as a scanned image of the pressed cardboard dog tags Cooke war in the trenches of Europe in 1918. The dog tags remain intact and in excellent shape, despite their nearly one hundred years of existence.

Special thanks must be given to the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry and in particular an unknown Sergeant with that unit in Shilo, Manitoba, who was instrumental in gathering this information. For more information, go to www.ppcli.com


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