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Although Private Cooke has some history given, I'm going to try this one and possibly locate a Canadian family. He is a man of conviction, like my grandfather, who served on the Western front for 4 years lifting the wounded... I like to think, they may have met in person, when time and circumstance led them to cross paths at YPRES in 1916.

Birth: 2 Oct 1889 - Sussex, England Death: 15 Jun 1916 - France Parents: Charles Sidney Cooke, Emily Sarah Northcott via www.ancestry.co.uk

My uncle was born in Hove/Brighton and after leaving Brighton College worked for the Montreal bank in London. Was transferred to Montreal. Volunteered for the Princess Patricia's Canadian Volunteer force. Injured in 1916 Ypres hospitalised for 3 weeks in England returned to France and died 3 days later at Mount Sorrell with thousands of other Canadians. My cousins Ernest Body and Arthur Perrey born in Wittersham Kent left from Medicine Hat for France luckily both returned uninjured. Others Body's killed Major Edward 1918 and Arthur 1915. Remembered them all hear.

Hi I am back. Is Gerald Northcott Cooke from Brighton a relation of Bernard. Gerald married Jeanette Francis Mills in Canada. There is a history on the underneath link with a photo of Nettie, Gerald and Bernice on page 248 and one a few years later on his own and the Fallen Graves page 249. If Gerald is related to Bernard and you have not seen this link also go to page 367 with the drop down menu or click the arrow until you get to that page, as he is mentioned again on the Mills page. my email address is i.body@sky.com and if you are still worried look me up on facebook ivor james burgess body. regards ivor www.ourfutureourpast.ca/loc_hist/page.aspx?id=3529214

Help piece together the Life Stories of more than 8 million men and women who made a contribution during the First World War at www.livesofthefirstworldwar.org/

Is that a stone under the seat?

This is amazing: King Edward's Chair, sometimes known as St Edward's Chair or The Coronation Chair, is the throne on which the British monarch sits for the coronation. It was commissioned in 1296 by King Edward I to contain the coronation stone of Scotland — known as the Stone of Scone — which he had captured from the Scots who had kept it at Scone Abbey. The chair was named after England's only canonized king, Edward the Confessor, and was kept in his shrine of St Edward's Chapel at Westminster Abbey. This article can be found at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Edward's_Chair

Yes, amazing. Nowadays, the Stone of Scone is no longer there, having been repatriated to Scotland: www.royal.gov.uk/output/page2015.asp The rest of the chair can be seen in Westminster Abbey, and will surely feature during the next Coronation.

Returned to Scotland in 1996. And if you think it will be returned to England for the next Coronation ... hmm...

Nah, I didn't mean the Stone of Scone, I meant that the chair will be used for the Coronation.

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There's a whole row of houses missing these days

derangedlemur Yes, that terrace shows on this 1894 map, and the street between was known as Poets Corner, as well as the bit inside the Abbey ... upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/London_westmi... from - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Abbey

Statue is Richard I, the Lion Heart. "... It was installed in October 1860, though it was not until March 1867 that it was finally completed with the addition of bronze bas-reliefs on either side of the pedestal. ..." From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Coeur_de_Lion_(statue) So before 1867 ??

Flickr is sometimes amazing! A similar view in 2009 from an extensive album about the conservation of the statue - via UK Parliament