Matt Cooke
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Matt Cooke
@mattcookephoto.bsky.social
Photographer, educator, a fan of the infernal combustion engine and all things automotive. Neurospicy.
Indeed I do know where you are. If you see Steve Gray at AC cars say hello.
March 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM
We used to holiday in Norfolk as a kid and he would tell me of his
Coastal Defence work and the places he knew and had been stationed. He also served down in Cornwall during those three years and could navigate there without a map easily into the 1990’s.
December 11, 2024 at 11:44 AM
I have a number of stories. Particularly about Burma. He was a signals officer, seconded from his Royal Warwickshire regiment to a division of the Leicesters who went out with the Durham light infantry.
I have his medals & his Kukri Gurkha knife. When I did my MA I was researching surviving veterans
December 11, 2024 at 11:41 AM
My father was stationed there, and also in Blakeney in Norfolk, on coastal
defence from 1939-41. In 1942 he was deployed to Burma returning home in 1946 a full year after the wars end.
December 11, 2024 at 8:32 AM