Cooke John

NAME Cooke John
RANK IN GREECE

Major

ON DEMOB

 

SERIAL NUMBER SERVICE

N/K

PRISONER

N/A

UNIT IN GREECE

SOE

ACTIVE

 

IN GREECE

Parachuted in for sabotage & Partisan support, 1942.

METHOD OF DEPARTURE

 

Possibly on onion boat?
POW CAMPS

 

IN GREECE

N/A

IN OCCUPIED EUROPE

N/A

NOTES

Joined Lt Col Eddie Myers on Gorgopatomos Viaduct demolition.

Possibly sent to Albania to contact resistance.

Possibly engaged later in SOE operations in Europe.

STORY

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John Cooke Foreword

John Cooke Pre Greece

John Cooke Greek Campaign

John Cooke Post Greece

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