This name is on the St Andrew's War Memorial
This name is on Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9
(Cook, Walter William)
Service no G/43050
Private, Middlesex Regiment, 4th Battalion
Died age 22 on 28 April 1917
Son of the late Edwin Charles and Jane Cook.
Remembered at Arras Memorial, France, inside St Andrew's Church, Landor Road, Stockwell, London SW9 and Stockwell War Memorial, London SW9 (name is given as W. W. Cook)
Information from the 1911 census
Ten people shared the 4 rooms of the Cook household at 3 Priory Buildings (3rd Floor) on Southville, off Wandsworth Road, SW8. Walter William Cook lived with his brother and his family, as well as his widowed father, Edwin.
Edward Cook, 42, was a carman for a greengrocer, born in Lambeth.
Alice Cook, 39, was born in Lambeth. They had 9 children, 6 of whom survived in 1911.
Their children, all born in Stockwell, were Edward Cook, 17, a railway porter; and Albert Cook, 16, a clipper in a box factory; Marion Cook, 14; James Cook, 11; William Cook, 7; Harold Cook, 5
Edward's brother Walter, 15 (later remembered on the war memorials) was 15 and working as a clipper in a box factory. He was also born in Stockwell.
Edward and Walter's father, Edwin, 67 a retired greengrocer, lived with the family. He was born in Lambeth.
John Smith, a 40-year-old single coal porter born in Blackfriars, London, was visiting.