Topic: AIF - NZMRB - CMR
CMR, NZEF
Canterbury Mounted Rifles Regiment
Roll of Honour
Rudolph Grattan Cooke
A brief military biography of Rudolph Grattan Cooke
Address: Richmond, Nelson, New Zealand.
Conflict: 1914-1918.
Embarkation details: Unit embarked fromWellington, New Zealand, on board HMNZT 14 Willochra on 14 December 1914.
Embarkation Roll Page: Volume I, 70.
Embarkation Unit name: Canterbury Mounted Rifles, 2nd Reinforcement.
Enlistment date: 5 August 1915.
Fate: Killed in Action 23 December 1916.
Marital status: Single.
Next of kin: Mrs G.S. Cooke (mother), Richmond, Nelson, New Zealand.
Place of death or wounding: Magdhaba, Sinai Peninsular, Egypt.
Rank at death: Sergeant [Sgt].
Rank on enlistment: Trooper.
Regimental number: 7/703.
Unit from Nominal Roll: Canterbury Mounted Rifles.
Lest we forget
Sources Used:
The Cenotaph Database hosted by the Auckland Museum.
Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume I. Wellington: Govt. Printer, 1914-1919.CWGC files, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Debt of Honour Register.
Collected Records of Steve Becker.
Further Reading:
Canterbury Mounted Rifles Regiment
Canterbury Mounted Rifles Regiment, Roll of Honour
The Battle of Magdhaba, Sinai, December 23, 1916, Roll of Honour, Australia and New Zealand
Battles where Australians fought, 1899-1920
Citation: Canterbury Mounted Rifles Regiment, Roll of Honour, Rudolph Grattan Cooke
