Cook
Fellow officer
Mentioned: 1917 only
Comrades in the field A companion for about a week in late August and early September 1917: an outing to Aubigny, a rained-out evening watching the Chinese Labour Corps "perform," a trip to St. Pol in the Cadillac, presiding over a card-game lesson. Distinct from "the cook," the mess's actual cook, fired that December: a coincidence of the same common word, not the same person.
Appears in the diary · 5 entries
1917
- 25 August 1917… d up the R.T.O. & the village cut-ups for tea. – Went for a wander round the aerodrome & over to ACQ with Cook after dinner.
- 26 August 1917… to LORETTE but they told us at the aerodrome that the war was off for a couple of days, so slept all aft. Cook & I went over to see the chinks perform these eve + got caught in the rain. - It did pour …
- 27 August 1917… idn't even go down to the station to watch the trains come in. Morgan (Lt. Ry. Sigs.) came in to lunch. – Cook & I wiled away most of the aft & ev'g at Casino, then I had a brain wave & wrote a long l …
- 29 August 1917Heavy showers. Cook got the Cadillac and we made a trip to St. Pol in the rain this aft. – Didn't find it ver …
- 1 September 1917… ke evinced a desire to be initiated into the mysteries of the grand national game + were duly put thro. – Cook presided.