Cooke, Horace

Title

Cooke, Horace
Cooke, H

Description

34 items. The collection concerns Flight Lieutenant Horace Cooke DFC (b. 3 April 1919, 115312 Royal Air Force) and contains his log book, training notes, documents, medal ribbons, and photographs. He flew operations as wireless operator and air gunner with 7,49, 99 and 156 Squadrons before training as a pilot. Later he was an instructor with various units.

The collection was loaned to the IBCC Digital Archive for digitisation by David Drew and catalogued by Lynn Corrigan.

Date

2019-06-07
2024-02-24

Publisher

IBCC Digital Archive

Rights

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Identifier

Cooke, H

Collection Items

Checks before take-off
A list of checks to be taken before take-off and before landing.

Royal Air Forces Association
Horace Cooke DFC's original lifetime membership card.

Royal Air Forces Association
Horace Cooke's life membership card with the header 'duplicate card'.

Tribute to a war hero
Top left: Horace, in uniform, gloves and peaked cap. He is flanked by a woman in glasses and hat and a man in a bowler hat.
Top right: A chipmunk in flight,
Bottom right: View of a church and a map of Huntingdon District.
Bottom left: Ticket…

Appointment of Horace Cooke DFC as an officer
Horace being confirmed to the rank of flying officer.

Certificate for the award of the Path Finder Force badge
Certifies that Acting Flight Lieutenant H Cook DFC is permanently awarded the Path Finder Force badge.

Aviation law and meteorology for air navigators
Training manuals.

Award of Path Finder Force badge
Left: Letter to Horace confirming his qualification for the award of the Path Finder Force badge. Advising that he is entitled to wear it as long as he remains in the Pathfinder force unless he has further written authority.

Right: A head and…

Instructions and guide to all officers and airmen of the Royal Air Force regarding precautions to be taken in the event of falling into the hands of an enemy
Instructions and guide for airmen in the event of falling into the hands of the enemy. Includes information to be given in the event of capture, means used to extract information from prisoners and precautions to be taken, such as not carrying…

Pilot's notes
Notes for the Chipmunk including an amendment list and annotated cockpit.

Pilot's and flight engineer's notes
Training notes for the Lancaster including tarmack checks and limitations, starting procedure, cockpit checks and checks before take-off and before landing.

The Pathfinder club
Top: H Cooke DFC's Pathfinder club membership card No 703.

Bottom: Annual membership card of the Bomber Command Association in the name of Flight Lieutenant H Cooke DFC.

Record of service
Top left: Presented to Horace on his retirement by the Air Training Corps with humorous entries and autographs.

Right: A letter advising Horace that he can retain his rank of flight lieutenant following completion of his service and the…

With the cadets
Horace, wearing his uniform with pilot's brevet and medal ribbon, sat in the centre of a row of eight cadets with six more cadets standing behind. The group is arranged in front of a Handley Page Victor.

Student pilot's licence
Horace's licence including his medical assessment passing him as medically fit.

Wedding cars
Decorated with ribbons, twoHillman 14 registration numbers EAL 3 and GTO 90 are parked outside the entrance to a churchyard. Both cars have AA and RAC badges. Identification kindly provided by Frank Schilder.

Summary of medical board
Granting of indefinite leave to Flight Lieutenant Horace Cooke pending instructions.

Officer's medical card
Top: Includes medical classification, lists protective inoculations and vaccination record for Horace Cooke.
Bottom: Horace's life membership card for the Royal Air Forces Association.

Wings dinner
Left: Menu illustrated with silhouettes of three aircraft with a list of graduates and autographs.
Right: Christmas dinner menu with autographs.

I've gone solo
Top left: A card signed by Flight Lieutenant H Cooke to recognise his first solo flight as pilot.
Right: Programme and menu for the 59th graduating class. Includes a list of class members, including Flight Lieutenant H Cooke, and…

Investiture
Inviting Flight Lieutenant Horace Cooke DFC to an investiture at Buckingham Palace with details of timings and dress code.

A Flight, No 3 Squadron, 13 Initial Training Wing
A group of 33 airmen arranged in three rows in the grounds of a house. Three men wear peaked caps and 30 wear half caps. It is captioned 'A Flight.No 3 Squadron' and '30 I.T.W. October 1943' separated by the Royal Air Force crest. Below the image are…

Horace Cooke
Head and shoulder portrait of Horace in uniform with his air gunner's brevet.

Aircrew
A group pf seven airmen standing under a Lancaster with open bomb doors. The central figure is wearing a peaked cap and pilot's brevet with the others wearing half caps.

Boy and his dog
Top left: Boy wearing school uniform standing astride a dog on the beach.
Top right: RAF Volunteer Reserve - Notice Paper.
Bottom right: RAF Flying Clothing Card.
Bottom left: Portrait of a dog.
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