Eva Mary Cooke

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Eva Cooke was the eldest daughter of John Cooke and Rose Cooke.

She had two sons:

  • Tom
  • Arthur John "Jack" Bate (2 August 1923 - 6 November 1944). Jack was a fighter pilot with the 101st Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF).

Jack was a fighter pilot and was shot down and killed in 1944 (age 21). I don't know how his body was recovered but he is buried in France.

— Bill Currie, email to Michael Currie, 7 June 2014

Jack's name is memorialized at the Memorial Park Circle Cenotaph [1] in Winnipeg.

Sources

http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/sites/parkcirclecenotaph.shtml

https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2036793