Red 22 has R. Cook, Zanzibar

Winner of the Barry Cup (Coast Golf Championship) in 1917

Jerome Cook (great-grandson): He was invalided out of the army in 1917 (following an injury on the first day of the Battle of the Somme). He worked in Zanzibar between at least 1918 and 1919 (based on dated photographs and the forwarding address for his WW1 medal). He was discharged from military hospital in May 1917 and I suspect he sailed out to Zanzibar in late 1917 based on some postcards but I don't know for certain. He was back in London in 1921, where he married my great-grandmother and was recorded in the 1921 census. He was a drapery wholesaler for a firm called Affleck & Brown (which is remembered as a department store in Manchester but Robert Cook's work location, in the census and a business card I have, was in London in what seems to have been a warehouse). There are passenger lists which indicate he departed London in November 1921 for Mombasa; and returned from Kilindini Port in summer 1923. Given he was based in Zanzibar previously, I assume Mombasa/Kilindini were transit points on his way to/from Zanzibar.

Ancestry: 28 Nov 1914 • London, England Enlisted with the 1/14th Battalion (London Scottish). [NB.7 November 1914 : came under command of 1st Brigade in 1st Division.] Address is 12 Warwick Sq, so still working/living at Copestake, Crampton & Co (occupation listed as commercial traveller. 17 Aug 1915 Deployed to France. [NB. 8 February 1916 : 1/14th Battalion (London Scottish) transferred to 168th Brigade in 56th (London) Division.] 1 Jul 1916 • Gommecourt, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France "On the morning of the attack, I happened to be in the HQ dugout after we had taken the first three lines..when a shell landed on the roof of our dugout and knocked the ceiling in. The result being I got stuck with a heavy wood beam just above both ankles". 21 May 1917 • Warrington, Lancashire, England discharged from army following convalescence at Lord Derby War Hospital, Warrington. Residence 18 Mar 1918 • Zanzibar, East Africa'.

1921 census: living at 202 Marylebone Road; occupation: drapery salesman at Mssrs. Affleck & Brown Ltd, 112 Wood Street, London
18 Nov 1921 Departs from London for Mombasa, British East Africa, aboard the British India Shipping and Navigation Company Limited's "Culna". Left E Africa 1923.

1939 England and Wales Register living with wife in Canvey Island, as draper's salesman