York D-Day veteran Ken Cooke presents gift during event
“Wasn’t that just great? One of our best evenings yet,” said Ken Cooke, following the event at St Lawrence Parish Church ...
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Featherstone deserved York Knights win, says Paul Cooke
Joe Brown opened the scoring for the Knights just after the quarter-hour before a Ben Jones-Bishop double handed them a ...
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Ken Cooke celebrated by First Bus with bus named after him
Ken Cooke, one of the city’s last surviving Second World War veterans, was honoured by First Bus after the company made ...
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Ex-York Knights pair Paul Cooke & Ged Corcoran team up at Featherstone
Cooke has been appointed as the West Yorkshire club’s new head coach, with Corcoran joining Ian Hardman as assistant coach. ...
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Ken Cooke joins Remembrance service at Station Rise memorial
Ken Cooke laid a wreath at the newly cleaned North Eastern Railway War Memorial, in Station Rise, this morning (Monday, ...
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York D-Day veteran Ken Cooke returns from Normandy beaches
During an exhausting but emotional and uplifting three days, the 98-year-old veteran got to meet Queen Camilla and Prime Minister ...
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York Normandy veteran Ken Cooke presented with a model of ‘his’ train
Ken, now 98, took part in the D-Day landings at Gold Beach as a Green Howards private. Then, after the ...
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