South Yorkshire Times, October 7th 1944
Decorated By “Monty”
Former Brampton Curate Wounded in Holland
Captain the Rev. Sam Cook, M.C. formerly curate of Brampton Bierlow, Wombwell, has been flown to this country with wounds received in the fighting in Holland. He was bending over a wounded man lying on a stretcher when a shell burst nearby. Fragments of shrapnel struck him in the face and a piece entered his right arm. Another fragment went through his jersey and tunic to lodge in his pocket. Luckily the full force of the explosion went over him.
Mrs. Cook, formerly Miss Anne Henfrey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. Henfrey, Park Street, Wombwell, has been to hospital to see him. They have one child.
Mrs. Henfrey is on the staff of Rawmarsh Modern Girls’ School . Captain Cook, who is a son of Mr. S. W. Cook of Abbeydale, Sheffield, was decorated recently by Field Marshal Montgomery for “very gallant action in the field.”
Captain Cook was educated at King Edward VII School, Sheffield, and Lampeter Theological College. After serving three years as assistant priest at Brampton, he went to the city church of St. Peter Mancroft, Norwich, taking charge of the parish of Surlingham at the outbreak of war. He joined up for service as a Chaplain in 1940, saw a good deal of service in the Suez area and North African desert, and was for a long period on the staff of the hospital ship “Atlantis.”
He went over for the invasion after training with a Scottish Division and was wounded slightly on July 11th.