Cook Elmer

Monuments

First Division Monument (Soissons)

Name:

Elmer Cook

Rank:

Private

Serial Number:

Unit:

28th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division

Date of Death:

1918-08-04

State:

West Virginia

Cemetery:

Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia

Plot:

Section 18, Site 2515

Row:

Grave:

Decoration:

Comments:

When Elmer Cook was born on September 12, 1894, in Oceana, West Virginia, his father, William, was 35 and his mother, Almeda, was 34. He served in the U.S. Army during World War I as a Private First Class in Company B, 28th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. He was Killed in Action on August 4, 1918 and is now buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA. His name is inscribed on the Buzancy monument as a Private.