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ASSOCIATION
Remembering World War I
Yarmouth Connections
Remembering
Those Who Served
Yarmouth Town and County
1914 - 1918
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Date of Enlistment:
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Arthur Hilton Cook
68098
Lance Corporal
25th Battalion
July 16, 1895
So. Ohio, Yarmouth Co., NS
December 8, 1914
20
5 feet, 11 inches
Halifax NS
So. Ohio, Yarmouth Co., NS
29th Battery Field Artillery, Yarmouth (2 years)
Clerk
Baptist
Mrs. Steven (Georgina) Cook (Mother) So. Ohio, Yarmouth Co.,
NS
Arthur embarked for England on the SS Saxonia and departed Folkstone, UK for France on March
16, 1915. He was appointed Lance Corporal in the field on March 31, 1916. On April 5, 1916, while
serving in France, he was reported missing and unofficially reported a prisoner of war at
Ksiegsgefongenenlager in Giessen, Hesse, Germany.
On May19, 1917 he was officially reported a prisoner at Giessen. On September 21, 1917 he was
transferred to the POW Camp at Meschede,Westphalia and on October 1, 1917 transferred to the POW
Camp at Soltau, Hanover. On January 9, 1918 he was again transferred to the POW Camp at Hameln,
Hanover and on May 14, 1918 he was interned in Holland.
He was repatriated and arrived in England on November 18, 1918 and transferred to the Repatrated
Prisoner of War Camp to “D’ Company at Bramshott.
Lance Corporal Cook returned to Canada on January 3, 1919, and was posted to No. 6 Casualty
Company from January 15, 1919 at Halifax and was discharged on March 31, 1919.