Place VC Won River Tigris, near Kut-el-Amara, Mesopotamia (now Iraq)
War/Campaign First World War 1915
Name Edgar Christopher Cookson No.POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 669 Awards VC DSO
Regiment Royal Navy
Later
Now
Rank VC Won Lieutenant Commander
Rank End Of Career Lieutenant Commander
Place Of Birth Cavendish Park, Tranmere, Cheshire, England
Place Of Death River Tigris, near Kut-el-Amara, Iraq
Buried/Location Ashes Amara War Cemetery, 150 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) removed Plot/Grave no. Plot IV, Row A, Grave 15
Gazetted 21 January 1916
VC Presented 29 November 1916, King George V, Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
Named on wall at Amara War Cemetery, 150 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq
P Named on Chatham Naval Memorial, Kent
P Memorial Plaque, St Candida & Holy Cross Church, Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset
By The Way…
In 1933 all headstones removed due to deterioration from the salt in the soil, later all men known to have been buried in the cemetery were commemorated on a wall
