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Harold Joseph Cook was one of the young men of Matlock who died
in the Great War. When he died he was 18 years of age, and a
Private in the 15th Battalion of the Durham Light Infantry.
This photograph was taken on the 20th February 1918, only a
few months after his 18th birthday. Harold died on 29 May 1918
and is commemorated at the Hermonville Military Cemetery, Marne,
France with other British soldiers who mostly fell in May and
June of that year.
The photograph was sent as a postcard by Harold to his Aunt
Jane.
His parents, Joseph and Alice, lived at 1 Gladstone Terrace,
Jackson Road. They had married at All Saints' Matlock on 5th
February 1899 with Adam Lowe officiating and W. S. Cook and
Fredrick Smith as witnesses. In the 1901 census Joseph is listed
as All Saints' Church Caretaker. |
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This second family photograph is of Harold and his mother.
Alice and Joseph continued to live at Gladstone Terrace; Alice was there until 1959. She found it particularly hard to accept that her son had died. Although Joseph had been born in Matlock, Alice was born in Liverpool; her father David Rawsthorne was a saddler and worked from the family home in Vauxhall Road. |
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The small photograph on the left is of a slightly
older Alice, taken from a group photograph. Although the photo
is stamped 16th August, the year is not clear, although was
perhaps 1926. |
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