Henry Cook (footballer)

Henry Cook
	Cook while with Middlesbrough in 1912.
Personal information
Full name	Henry Cook
Date of birth	23 October 1893
Place of birth	Middlesbrough, England
Date of death	9 January 1917 (aged 23)
Place of death	Maurepas, France
Position(s)	Wing half
Senior career*
Years	Team
	South Bank
1912–1916	Middlesbrough
1915–1916	→ Brentford (guest)
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Henry Cook (23 October 1893 – 9 January 1917) was an English professional footballer who played as a wing half in the Football League for Middlesbrough.^[1] He also played for South Bank and appeared as a guest for Brentford during the First World War.^[4]

Personal life

Prior to becoming a professional footballer, Cook was a teacher at Marton Road School and North Ormesby Junior Boys' School in Middlesbrough.^[5]^[6] After enlisting in January 1915,^[7] Cook served as a sergeant in the 12th (Service) Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment during the First World War.^[5] He took part in the operations on the Ancre and was wounded in action by shellfire in early January 1917 while the battalion was engaged in road works in the vicinity of Maurepas, Somme.^[3] He died of his wounds on 9 January 1917 and was buried in Grove Town Cemetery, Méaulte.^[8] At the time of his death, Cook had been accepted for a commission and would have returned to England three days later to begin officer training.^[6] He left a wife and two children.^[5]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club	Season	League			FA Cup		Total
Club	Season	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Middlesbrough	1912–13^[9]	First Division	5	0	0	0	5	0
	1913–14^[9]		10	0	0	0	10	0
	1914–15^[9]		8	0	2	0	10	0
Career total			23	0	2	0	25	0

^ ^a ^b Joyce, Michael (2012). Football League Players' Records 1888 to 1939. Nottingham: Tony Brown. p. 64. ISBN 978-1905891610.
^ "Casualty Details". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
^ ^a ^b Coulson, Robert. "The Middlesbrough Roll of Honour of the Great War Names "C"" (PDF).
^ White, Eric, ed. (1989). 100 Years Of Brentford. Brentford FC. p. 363. ISBN 0951526200.
^ ^a ^b ^c Bell, Graham. "Boro War Heroes on TV". www.mfc.co.uk. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
^ ^a ^b Menzies, Paul (2014). Great War Britain Middlesbrough: Remembering 1914–18. The History Press. ISBN 978-0752499710.
^ Henry Cook on Lives of the First World War
^ "Henry Cook | Service Record". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Henry Cook". 11v11.com. Retrieved 1 June 2017.