Nigel
Firstname
Frank
Middle Name
Cooke
Surname
Date of Birth
School Years:
Date of Death:
1925 - 34
Family
Son of N. C. Cooke of Lawford and Mining Engineer of N. Nigeria from 1910 to 1951.
School Record
Head of Broke House and School Perfect. Gonville and Caius College Cambridge.
Branch of Service:
Army West African Frontier Force.
Service Number:
Rank:
Decorations:
Service Record
Lieutenant
Campaign Medals
Post War Career
War Substantive Lieutenant in General List African Colonial Forces Section.
Served in the Colonial Civil Service in Nigeria both before and after WW2 and as Resident and Senior Resident. Retired in 1962 and became a temporary Civil Servant with the Ministry of Overseas Development until 1964. He then worked for Courtaulds.
Burial Information
Additional Information
Obituary O.I.M. volume 9 2008 at page 36.
Mentioned in "Tales from the Dark Continent" edited by Charles Allen (BBC 1979)
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